What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.