22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

History is not hatred.

Growing is the result of learning.

The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.