America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Respect me, or put me to death.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate.

I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.