If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.