There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people..

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen..

When I liberate others, I liberate myself..

It's time for America to get right..

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 ….

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 ….

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

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

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..

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….

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

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 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..

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….

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

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….

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

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

Nobody's free until everybody's free..

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

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….