Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.