You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

I know that I will not die until my time comes.

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?