We Black Men Seem The Sole Oasis

The Time Must Come When, Great And Pressing As Change And Betterment May Be, They Do Not Involve Killing And Hurting People.

The Shadow Of A Mighty Negro Past Flits Through The Tale Of Ethiopia The Shadowy And Of The Egypt The Sphinx. Throughout History, The Powers Of Single Blacks Flash Here And There Like Falling Stars, And Die Sometimes Before The World Has Rightly Gauged Their Brightness.

Nothing In The World Is Easier In The United States Than To Accuse A Black Man Of Crime.

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 Dark World Is Going To Submit To Its Present Treatment Just As Long As It Must And Not One Moment Longer.