The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.