I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells

Imagine That -- A Country That's Supposed To Be A Democracy, Supposed To Be For Freedom And All Of That Kind Of Stuff When They Want To Draft You And Put You In The Army And Send You To Saigon To Fight For Them -- And Then You've Got To Turn Around And All Night Long Discuss How You're Going To Just Get A Right To Register And Vote Without Being Murdered. Why, That's The Most Hypocritical Government Since The World Began!

Most Of [ The Negro Leaders] Who - Who, Whose Existence Or Whose Position Of Leadership Depends Upon The - On The Subsidy Or Crumbs For - The Crumbs From The White Man's Table, Will Only Say What That White Man Wants To Hear. When They Get Behind The Door They Talk A Different Language.

What You And I Need To Do Is Learn To Forget Our Differences. When We Come Together, We Don't Come Together As Baptists Or Methodists. You Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're A Baptist, And You Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're A Methodist... You Don't Catch Hell Because You're A Democrat Or A Republican. You Don't Catch Hell Because You're A Mason Or An Elk. And You Sure Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're An American; 'cause If You Was An American, You Wouldn't Catch No Hell. You Catch Hell 'cause You're A Black Man. You Catch Hell, All Of Us Catch Hell, For The Same Reason.

When You Are Equal With Another Person, The Problem Of Integration Doesn't Even Arise.

I Have Often Reflected Upon The New Vistas That Reading Has Opened To Me. I Knew Right There In Prison That Reading Had Changed Forever The Course Of My Life. As I See It Today, The Ability To Read Awoke Inside Me Some Long Dormant Craving To Be Mentally Alive.