Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!