It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

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

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.