It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.