The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.