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.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

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