What is the quality of your intent?

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.