You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

Seeing is not always believing.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

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.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.