A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside.

There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.