Ultimately, the economic foundations of this country must be shaken if black people are to control their lives. The colonies of the United States-and this includes the black ghettoes within its borders, north and south-must be liberated. For a century, this nation has been like an octopus of exploitation, its tentacles stretching from Mississippi and Harlem to South America, the Middle East, southern Africa, and Vietnam; the form of exploitation varies from area to area but the essential result has been the same-a powerful few have been maintained and enriched at the expense of the poor and voiceless colored masses. This pattern must be broken.