I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country.