Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve..

What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road ….

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man..

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated..

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered..

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination..

Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the Ameri….

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference ….

The Negro was invented in America..

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race..

We are not fighting for the right to be like you. We respect ourselves too much for that. When we advocate freedom, we mean freedom for us to be blac….