If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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.

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.