"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never …"

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

"I'm going to retire and become a spiritual leader."

"Black people have got to be given their freedom, their independence. We've got to be given land. We've got to be given our own schools, our own colleges, our own universities, our own industries, our …"

"I was the first to refuse the draft. I was the first to speak out against the Vietnam War. I was the first to call the white man the devil."