The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

By any means necessary.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.