Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually.
If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine.
I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn’t try and see him as he actually was.
The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.
It’s impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.
We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct – unity of purpose.
Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can’t believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don’t want to leave anybody out.
That is a lie. I’m not for wanton violence, I’m for justice.
I don’t mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I’m nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you’ve made me go insane, and I’m not responsible for what I do.
In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a ‘sociological’ problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
I believe it’s a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
If the so-called ‘Christianity’ now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer – no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.
My alma mater was books, a good library.
I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don’t believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman.
Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.
We don’t go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.