You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.