It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.