The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.

The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise--the carrying into practice of religi…

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

'A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.'

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of anoth…

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and re…