It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.