Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.