Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

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.

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.