Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.