Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.