America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.