This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

Growing is the result of learning.

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.