Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

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