An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God.

The common enemy is the white man.