This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.