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.

If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin.

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

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.