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.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.