"The American black man is the most unfortunate human being to land on the face of the earth. He was brought here from Africa and has been brainwashed, stripped of his culture, his language, his religi…"

"We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"You can't have capitalism without racism."

"I have more respect for a man who is honest enough to tell me he doesn't like me in my face, than for one who pretends to like me and then stabs me in the back."