American society Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

— Huey Newton

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I…

— Whitney M. Young

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

— Stokely Carmichael

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

— Cleveland Sellers

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

— Wesley Lowery

It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the…

— Martin Luther

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

— Charles Hamilton Houston

Black is a colour of power and strength.

— Hayden Fry

“One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

— Langston Hughes

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

'Power' is not a black show. It's not a white show. It's a New York show.

— Courtney A. Kemp