Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.