It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].