People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

The President of Guinea, Sekou Toure, came to see us on the 13th. Now you know, I don't know how you can compare this by me being able to see a President of a country when I have just been there two days; and here I have been in America, born in America, and I am 46 years pleading with the President for the last two to three years to just give us a chance-and this President in Guinea recognized us enough to talk to us.

I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."

That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."