While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.