Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with hu...man rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of di...ssent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of ...poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically develo...ped as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to ...hurt; but who would return to smallness?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I f...elt without roots, like a man without a country ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »