Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

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

Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Congress or Senate to legislate, or even the president to issue any kind of - of a proclamation to better the condition of our people, if a N - if he - if a, if a Negro leader is standing up, making that point clear, then he's all right with us.

Only the mistakes were mine.