I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.