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

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.