No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

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

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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

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

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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

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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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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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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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