Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their ….

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color..

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!.

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make cer….

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use a….

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom..

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!.

There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house t….

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man….

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a d….

If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you see how the white man today has changed h….

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-d….

[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because….

I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you..

When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nation….

The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the mat….

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed….

If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of ….

I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a prof….

Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - inci….

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom ….