The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.