Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.