Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

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

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

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

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

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

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