For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being