At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

I think, again, that that does the whole problem a, a disservice. It's not a case of our wanting to mix socially with whites. And when you - and the whites are right in the South when they say that getting a cup of coffee in a restaurant is not going to solve - is all right.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.