We Black Men Seem The Sole Oasis

Is A Civilization Naturally Backward Because It Is Different? Outside Of Cannibalism, Which Can Be Matched In This Country, At Least, By Lynching, There Is No Vice And No Degradation In Native African Customs Which Can Begin To Touch The Horrors Thrust Upon Them By White Masters. Drunkenness, Terrible Diseases, Immorality, All These Things Have Been Gifts Of European Civilization.

Most Men Today Cannot Conceive Of A Freedom That Does Not Involve Somebody's Slavery.

In 1956, I Shall Not Go To The Polls. I Have Not Registered. I Believe That Democracy Has So Far Disappeared In The United States That No 'two Evils' Exist. There Is But One Evil Party With Two Names, And It Will Be Elected Despite All I Can Do Or Say.

The Worker Must Work For The Glory Of His Handiwork, Not Simply For Pay; The Thinker Must Think For Truth, Not For Fame.

For Education Among All Kinds Of Men Always Has Had, And Always Will Have, An Element Of Danger And Revolution, Of Dissatisfaction And Discontent.