Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

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

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.