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

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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