The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Stumbling is not falling.
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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 slave master.
My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
History is not hatred.
The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
White America is in the minority.
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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.