"There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have some colored blood in them. They have been discriminated against and I am going to see that that is stopped."

"The problems of the world can't be solved by men who are afraid to use their brains."

"I don't give a damn about popularity. I care about doing what's right."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's an honest man and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then th…"