The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.