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"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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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."
People

"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
Politics

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

"Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country."
People

"The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!"
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"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."
Poverty

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

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

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

"One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty."
Progress
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