Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.