I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

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.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.