[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

You are either free or not free

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.