I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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.

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.