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

Revolutions are never peaceful.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

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

Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.