After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine