I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Stumbling is not falling.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

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

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

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 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.

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.