When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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.