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.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

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.

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?