If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

God is more lasting than the white man.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.