If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.