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

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizes himself with dope, to try and forget where and what he is. That Negro has given up all hope. He's the hardest one for us to reach, because he's the deepest in the mud. But when you get him, you've got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of this category - as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.