I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.