I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

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

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.