When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

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I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

I've often reflected upon such black veteran numbers men as West Indian Archie. If they had lived in another kind of society, their exceptional mathematical talents might have been better used. But they were black.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it call itself? It's in a vacuum.

You can't legislate good will – that comes through education.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

Someone has to pay. Somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay. When a snake bites your children, you don't go and look for the snake that has blood on it's jaws, any old snake will do. Any old snake will do!