You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

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

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.