We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.