See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.