Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

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.