No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.