Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

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

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.