A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom..

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick He….

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation..

Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; yo….

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..

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people..

Growing is the result of learning..

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has….

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performan….

Stumbling isn't falling..

I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression n….

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble..

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's..

A cat that's inside of your house that is angry and dissatisfied and hostile is more dangerous to you than a full-grown lion is on the outside..

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to….

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can..

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences,….

We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God..

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it..

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities whi….

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house..