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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.
A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.
Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.
I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.
You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort.
Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.
You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.
I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.
Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.
White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.
Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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.
When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.
If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.