By any means necessary.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.