Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

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.

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.