The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

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.

I might add, the whites who came here only say 50 years ago as immigrants have come into this country, they have set up businesses. They've developed these businesses into an industry.

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

By explaining the difference between segregation and separation. Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. If I have children and they live in my house, I care for them, they're dependent upon me. And their dependence upon me puts me in a position to regulate their lives, control their lives, tell them where to go, where they can't go. That's a form of segregation.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.