If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.