Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.