Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.