Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.