Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

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

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.