Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.

Stumbling is not falling.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.