"They have witnessed the law, both domestic and international, being spat upon by those who do not like its terms. Is it any wonder, then, that they feel justified, by sitting in and freedom riding, in breaking laws made by lawless men? [They are trying] .. to haul out an investigating committee to look into the disturbance to find the cause of the unrest among the youth. Look into a mirror! The cause is you, Mr. and Mrs. Yesterday, you with your forked tongues.

A young white today cannot help but recoil from the base deeds of his people. On every side, on every continent, he sees racial arrogance, savage brutality, toward the conquered and subjugated people, genocide; he sees the human cargo of the slave trade; he sees the systematic extermination of American Indians; he sees the civilized nations of Europe fighting in imperial depravity over the lands of other people - and over possession of the very people themselves. There seems to be no end to the ghastly deeds of which its people are guilty. GUILTY. The slaughter of the Jews by Germans, the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese people - these deeds weigh heavily upon the prostate souls and tumultuous conscience of the white youth. The white heroes, their hands dripping with blood, are dead."

- Eldridge Cleaver, "Soul on Ice"