I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.