No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.