If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.