As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

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

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone.

My sincerity is my credentials.