In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.