Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs ….

After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to g….

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role..

Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each ….

I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll….

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our pligh….

The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of th….

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people..

We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us t….

The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent..

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose prima….

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition….

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized the….

The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood ….

I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees hi….

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpos….

Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone..

I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an in….

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up..

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means ….

Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't ….