Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we'….

When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they conside….

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on f….

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weigh….

I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach….

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense t….

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slav….

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works..

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have ….

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racis….

One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Musli….

If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary..

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail beggin….

The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the ….

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America..

The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anyone come in and take ….

The white press itself created civil right leaders..

I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a eur….

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals..

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men..