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.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

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

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.

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