The Price Of Freedom Is Death.

[my Half-sister] Ella And I Always Were Much Closer As Basic Types; We're Dominant People, And [my Other Half-sister] Mary Has Always Been Mild And Quiet, Almost Shy.

We Don't Think That We're Begging For Anything. We Think We're Demanding What Is Ours By Right.

My Family Was So Poor We Were Close To Eating The Holes Inside Of Doughnuts.

The Black People Of America Have Been Victims Of Violence At The Hands Of The White Men For Four Hundred Years, And Following The Ignorant Negro Preachers, We Have Thought That It Was Godlike To Turn The Other Cheek To The Brute That Was Brutalizing Us.

In All Our Deeds, The Proper Value And Respect For Time Determines Success Or Failure.