One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.

As long as Negro leader is making the white man think that our people are satisfied to sit in his house and wait for him to correct these conditions, he is - he is misrepresenting the thinking of the black masses, and he's doing the white man a disservice because he's making the white man be more complacent than he would be if he knew the dangerous situation that is building up right inside his own house.

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

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.