I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

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

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.

The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.