Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.