Read moreGood education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
Read morePower doesn’t back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
Read moreMy Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Read moreYou’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Read moreWhen ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Read moreThe white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn’t nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.