I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.