An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.