Stumbling is not falling.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination.