Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave.

The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.