If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.