I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

Respect me, or put me to death.

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.