"[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking."
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"In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical."
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"Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's."
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"I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes."
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"The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes."
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"Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does."
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"And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago."
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"During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words."
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"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution."
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"Integration will not bring a man back from the grave."
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"It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter."
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"My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it."
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"Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned."
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"My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance."
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"You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me."
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"By any means necessary."
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"Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University."
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"I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours."
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"When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort."
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"Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek."
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