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 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.