When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.