Quotes about Activism

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

They called me 'the angriest Negro in America.' I wouldn't deny that charge. I spoke exactly as I felt. 'I believe in anger. The Bible says there is a time for anger.

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

It's time for women to stop being politely angry.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Boy, the young are angry at us. Good. This is what usually changes the world, although it's a new experience to be the us the young are mad at.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.