No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering..

The common enemy is the white man..

I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates ….

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it..

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us..

The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my han….

Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]..

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories..

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Bl….

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it….

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history..

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing..

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress..

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Littl….

I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another to bring himsel….

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference..

Only the mistakes were mine..

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..

When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want ….

You don't integrate with a sinking ship..

It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what yo….