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.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. They want to live in an open, free society where they can walk with their heads up, like men, and women! Few white people realize that many black people today dislike and avoid spending more time than they must about white people. This 'integration' image, as it is popularly interpreted, has millions of vain, self-exalted white people convinced that black people want to sleep in bed with them - and that's a lie!

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

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

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.