It Has Taken Us That Long To

His Master’s Pain Was His Pain. And It Hurt Him More For His Master To Be Sick Than For Him To Be Sick Himself. When The House Started Burning Down, That Type Of Negro Would Fight Harder To Put The Master’s House Out Than The Master Himself Would. But Then You Had Another Negro Out In The Field. The House Negro Was In The Minority. The Masses—the Field Negroes Were The Masses. They Were In The Majority. When The Master Got Sick, They Prayed That He’d Die. If His House Caught On Fire, They'd Pray For A Wind To Come Along And Fan The Breeze.

As I Say, If We Bring Up Religion We'll Have Differences; We'll Have Arguments; And We'll Never Be Able To Get Together.

We Are Nonviolent With People Who Are Nonviolent With Us.

Everybody Shall Be Accepted No Matter What They Stand For, You Are Not Always Going To Agree On Their Faith.

Once The White Man Let The Negro Get An Education, The Negro Began To Want What The White Man Has. But He Let Negroes Get An Education And Now They Are Demanding Integration; They Want To Have Exactly What He Has. And The White Man Is Not Going To Give It To Them!