If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

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

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

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.