Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.