The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.