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.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

Stumbling isn't falling.

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