A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.

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

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.