Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America..
The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach….
Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children..
Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of ….
Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of whe….
I don't have any hate. I've got some sense. I'm not going to let anybody who hates me tell me to love him. I'm not that way-out..
Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring….
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!.
Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, ….
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive..
They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!.
The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die..
The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the wor….
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare..
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking..
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison..
All over this world people are standing up for freedom..
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking caref….
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The ….
I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders..
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves..