Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.
The price of freedom is death.
In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being.
A man without any history is like a tree without roots.
Who taught you to hate yourself?
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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.
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.
Revolutions are never peaceful.
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.
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don’t have some humor, you’ll crack up.
It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.
I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.
Times change so quickly that if you and I don’t keep up with the times, we’ll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we’ll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he’s within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don’t think he’ll be by himself.