Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

The only thing power respects, is power.

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.