How can anyone be against love?
Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
The common enemy is the white man.
I don’t care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind.
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
I don’t believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism – a human being is exercising extremism – in defense of liberty for human beings it’s no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
Never allow your enemies to educate your children.
Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn’t even begun to pull out the knife.
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.