We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh.