Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.