"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."

"So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves."

"Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized."

"There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant."

"In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people."

"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty."

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

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

"Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford."

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

"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."

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

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

"They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class."

"We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed."

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

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

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

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

"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!"

"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."

"And understand: class differences will not save you."