It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided.