"There is no such thing as a black middle class."

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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."

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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."

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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."

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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."

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"If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down."

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"See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy."

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"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down."

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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."

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