The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government.