It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.