No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

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

You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.