[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.