My father didn’t know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
It’s liberty or death! It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!
I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his...
What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.
A ballot is like a bullet. You don’t throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.
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.