It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.

The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.