Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

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?

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.