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

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.