Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being….

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country..

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything..

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there….

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race….

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have yo….

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight….

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then ….

By any means necessary..

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt..

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world..

Those who stay here can help those who go back, and those who go back can help those who stay here in the same way that when Jews go to Israel, the J….

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress..

Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men a….

Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in tha….

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent..

The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie..

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Ev….

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with….

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And….

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slu….