If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

My sincerity is my credentials.

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

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.