I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

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.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.