Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

History is not hatred.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.