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

I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

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.

After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.