The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

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

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.