Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

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