If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

God is more lasting than the white man.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.