I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat eve….

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman..

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem..

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people o….

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle..

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he….

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moor….

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our ….

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personal….

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks..

When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you'r….

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position ….

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education..

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values cou….

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality..

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics;….

Let's cool it, brothers..

Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doin….

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times..

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts..