If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to beg in or wade [?] in or plead in when the people in Hungary didn't beg in? They were freedom fighters. And they fought for their freedom.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.