"You can't be free until I'm free."

"I’ve been trying for some time to make people realize that America is not an innocent country."

"The root of the matter is that the white man has projected onto the Negro that which he despises, fears, and wishes to avoid in himself."

"I often wonder what it is they think is going to happen when they die. I mean, they’re so busy trying to live, they don’t have time to die."

"To be absolutely without hope is to be absolutely without fear."