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.

But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.

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

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

I know that I will not die until my time comes.