It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another to bring himself to accept the person who used to pull his plow, who used to be an animal, subhuman, who used to be considered as such by him-it's almost impossible for that person in his right mind to accept that person as his equal.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

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.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!