Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

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

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.