The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.