Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition..
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape..
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black '….
I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own ki….
It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you ….
When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him..
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.".
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence..
Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and opp….
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective..
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace..
These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put th….
What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got us.And that's not deportation, that….
It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.
That's not our problem, that's America's problem. If the average American knew the trouble that Uncle Sam is in all over this earth, they could see t….
Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialo….
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man..
It takes two to tango; when I go, you go..
If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood..
Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University..
Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as t….