The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.