If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn't believe it.

... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.