Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

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

Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.