The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.