America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.