Black Power Quotes

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify, and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.

The Ballot or the Bullet

The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of constant humility or ever-threatening danger.

Move on over or we'll move on over you.

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.

Black power means Black dignity

Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn ... The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.

Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

Gangsta to me is the Black Panther Party.

A built-in hazard of an aggressive ethnocentric movement which disregards the interests of other disadvantaged groups is that it will become parochial and ultimately self-defeating in the face of hostile reactions, dwindling allies, and mounting frustrations.... Only a broad movement for human rights can prevent the Black Revolution from becoming isolated and can insure ultimate success.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

To demand these God-given rights is to seek black power

He took a stance as a man, and the greatest thing about Peter Norman is when you sit back and think about Tommie Smith and John Carlos here in America, they could go beat up on Tommie Smith and get tired of beating up on him and go to the other side of town and find John Carlos and beat up on him, but when Peter Norman left and went to Australia, there was no switch-off on Peter.

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.