You can't talk about a kind of democracy unless those who are affected by decisions make those decisions whether the institutions ...in question be the welfare department, the university, the factory, the farm, the neighborhood, the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every bit as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of wh...ite supremacy are to the Negro.... this is no more a man's world than it is a white world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent....... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. I...t has potency which the world does not yet know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a heavy burden on the conscience to know that while you sat in Music 101, some contemporary--as "worthy" of a college educa...tion as you were, but one who had been denied the opportunity because he was poor, or black, or both--was getting his head blown off in Vietnam. Many students believed that such inequity was wrong, but couldn't bring themselves to redress it personally by refusing the student deferment. It's a dreadful combination: to act for self-protection yet at the same time to loathe oneself for acting that way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not... stop being violent we have no future.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, when these New Negroes have their convention--that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. R...ace, race, race!... Damn, even the N double A C P takes a holiday sometimes!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »