I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise