Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

I knew Stokely [Carmichael] and them, but when you got to that, you saw that Nina Simone started to take up their burden. She started to preach for them. She was taking on the burden of "I want to tell the people."

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

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

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's a major thing, and there are so many other significant occurrences that have come from the '60s and '70s up to now.

I feel so proud to see young people standing up against the injustice to stand up and say that "All lives matter." They're following in the footsteps of those who came before them.

Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.