You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.