Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take control of the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pre-text that you want to integrate. No, you outta your mind.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".