I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

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

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?