The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.