Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

To realise our dreams we must decide to wake up.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

He was my cream, and I was his coffee - And when you poured us together, it was something.

We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural.