I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle.