The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.