Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.

Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.