Nobody's free until everybody's free..

The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean ….

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired..

Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a ….

It's time for America to get right..

Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to….

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for bla….

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over..

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody..

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you..

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the figh….

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap..

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face..

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?.

One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but peopl….

I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could….

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well..

I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have ….

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”..

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable..

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's wha….