You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Actually since the Convention I have gotten so many letters that I have tried to answer but every letter said they thought this decision, not to accept the compromise, was so important. There wasn't one letter I have gotten so far that said we should have accepted the compromise - not one.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered and nothing, I mean nothing has been done about that.