Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.