[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.