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.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

We're primarily interested in solving the problem of 20 million black people. And if integration is going to solve the problem tomorrow, then let's integrate. But since the Supreme Court issued its desegregation decision seven years ago, and you only have about six or seven percent integration now, on an educational level, that means that the black man trying to use integration as a means of solving his problem will be another 100 years just getting integration on an educational level.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem.