But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.

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

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

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

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

One of the things I remember as a child: There was a man named Joe Pulliam. He was a great Christian man; but one time, he was living with a white family and this white family robbed him of what he earned. They didn't pay him anything. This white man gave him $150 to go to the hill, (you see, I lived in the Black Belt of Mississippi)... to get another Negro family. Joe Pulliam knew what this white man had been doing to him so he kept the $150 and didn't go.

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.