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.

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

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

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.

just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.