I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

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