Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come..
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected..
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity..
If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be ….
We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lo….
I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, a….
It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South a….
For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today..
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….
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white she….
When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability..
The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Mos….
I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca..
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted ….
My alma mater was books, a good library..
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up….
Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself..
It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak.….
[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin..
After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black ….
When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When….