We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.

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