There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

I just want to do God’s will.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.