A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.

I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.