Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders..
America is a white man's country..
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the ghettos, like animals. T….
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of ….
The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach….
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison..
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have….
In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in..
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The ….
I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range..
Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring….
Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of….
22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America..
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children..
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking caref….
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking..
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, ….
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing..
For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today..
The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light..
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek..