US civil rights leader.
"He first used the "Black Power" slogan to describe grass-roots efforts at political and economic self-empowerment; changed his name to Kwame Ture."
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath.We ain't running no more."
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks."
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
