To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

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