It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.