Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.