Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

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

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.