Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

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

Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.