The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

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.

When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.