Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The little things that had been taught to me about the African people, that they were "heathens," "savages," and they were just downright stupid people. But when I got to Guinea, we were greeted by the Government of Guinea, which is Black People - and we stayed at a place that was the government building, because we were the guests of the Government.

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.