A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

By any means necessary.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.