If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

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

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

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.