I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.