Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.