Of All Our Studies, It Is History

First, What Is A Revolution? Sometimes I'm Inclined To Believe That Many Of Our People Are Using This Word "revolution" Loosely, Without Taking Careful Consideration [of] What This Word Actually Means, And What Its Historic Characteristics Are. When You Study The Historic Nature Of Revolutions, The Motive Of A Revolution, The Objective Of A Revolution, And The Result Of A Revolution, And The Methods Used In A Revolution, You May Change Words. You May Devise Another Program. You May Change Your Goal And You May Change Your Mind.

They're Not Leading Our People Toward Any Kind Of Independence, But They're Using Their Positions And Their Education And Their Talent To Exploit Our People Worse Than The Slave Master Did During Slavery.

There Can Be No Black-white Unity Until There Is First Some Black Unity... We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves. We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of Man, All Men, But I Don't Believe In Brotherhood With Anybody Who Doesn't Want Brotherhood With Me. I Believe In Treating People Right, But I'm Not Going To Waste My Time Trying To Treat Somebody Right Who Doesn't Know How To Return The Treatment.

That Is A Lie. I'm Not For Wanton Violence, I'm For Justice.