Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.