They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.