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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

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

" When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. "

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

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

" 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. "

" See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave. "

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

" I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state. "

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

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

" You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize. "

" Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.' "

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

" There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others. "

" 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. "

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

" No such thing as a Dixiecrat. "

" Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder. "