Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, whi….

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd..

Whoever is standing up telling the white man that his position is unjust and that the black people should not have to wait for any Supreme Court, Con….

I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of disc….

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himse….

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united a….

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodle….

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist..

Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improv….

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red..

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance o….

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind..

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means co….

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise..

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family ….

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change..

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor..

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and….

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior..

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone struc….