I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.