The white press itself created civil right leaders.

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

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.