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

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.