There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Education is our passport to the future.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.