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.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

God now is about to establish a kingdom on this earth based upon brotherhood and peace, and the white man is against brotherhood and the white man is against peace. His history on this earth has proved that.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?