Now you know where I got my name.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.

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

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.