We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.