Freedom is never given; it is won..

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and….

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is n….

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action..

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would ha….

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible..

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and mos….

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within..

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to hig….

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, y….

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy.

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the N….

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrod….

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it..

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, gov….

Power is the flower of organization..

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest..

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted..