We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".

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

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!

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

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.