Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. And what America is trying to do is pass laws to force whites to pretend that they want Negroes into their schools or into - in their places of employment.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca].