Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance.

The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

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

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.