Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!