Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

Stumbling is not falling.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.

The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.