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.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.