Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward..
When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort..
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colours and race….
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this….
Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the….
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. ….
Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill….
We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods..
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that..
It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come..
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things,….
I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of te….
I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wro….
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it..
Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now ….
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me….
God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people..
I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness o….
Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone..
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more..
Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his pro….