Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.