Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.