History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

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

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.