To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.