Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to ….
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it..
I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this….
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me….
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How ca….
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill….
The price of freedom is death..
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get….
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things,….
If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fix….
I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before i….
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism..
If not now then when, if not me then who?.
How can anyone be against love?.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God..
We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on P….
This is a God-given right of any man.Anytime you have a man who is getting lynched, and what are his people supposed to do? Sit around and forgive th….
I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the po….
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has fi….
All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't ha….
I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact….