It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

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

When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them.