Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

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

They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.