We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.