[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

Education is our passport to the future.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

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

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.