I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.

I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.

If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.

I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.