At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.