We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

Solve the race problem here, and once you solve the race problem here, you don't have to send these billions of dollars abroad.

Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy.