I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.

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.

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

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.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.