For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

The white devil's time is up.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.