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

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

You don't integrate with a sinking ship.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.