I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.