Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

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