"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself."

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner unless you eat some of what's on that plate."

"The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that it has convinced the black man that he is a Christian."

"The white man is intelligent enough to know that he has done wrong."

"The Negro revolution is no revolution at all. It's a token revolution. It's a revolution of integration."