How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.