It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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