Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.
Malcolm XJust as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
Malcolm XEither you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.
Malcolm X