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

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.