Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now ….
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….
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….
How can anyone be against love?.
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….
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….
No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it st….
It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody..
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Ev….
Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race….
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world..