It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

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