We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.

The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.