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

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.When you have something of your own, you have dignity. But whenever you are begging for a chance to participate in that which belongs to someone else, or use that which belongs to someone else, on an equal basis with the owner, that's not dignity. That's ignorance.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

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.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.