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

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.

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.