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

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

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

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.