The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

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

Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.