Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.