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

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.