Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't..
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is….
Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it..
History is not hatred..
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of ….
Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed..
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to bel….
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolen….
My faith in God is such that I am not afraid..
When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise..
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….
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck ….
At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison s….
If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the N….
I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything..
Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself..
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?.
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love ….
America just reaped what it had been sowing..
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white….
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam..