The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations..

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution..

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in th….

We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are….

Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in….

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out..

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it..

You can't have capitalism without racism..

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 ... No matter how much respect, no….

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been mak….

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Bec….

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro prea….

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it..

Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C..

I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Musl….

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary..

When you have your own bus, then you have dignity. When you have your own school, you have dignity. When you have your own country, you have dignity.….

If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived..

X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors ki….

As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's ….

[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together..