Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.