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

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

Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people or we will find that we have won the battle and lost the war.

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

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

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.