By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.