Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

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

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.