The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.