You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.