The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.