No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.