Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

America is a white man's country.