Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

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

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.