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.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.