How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.

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