I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see that it - we are closer toward getting a separate territory in this country than the integrationists are toward getting integration.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.