Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.

I had heard for years of Muslim hospitality, but one couldn’t quite imagine such warmth.

There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man’s problems.

Anyway, now, each day I live as if I am already dead, and I tell you what I would like for you to do. When I am dead – I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form – I want you to just watch and see if I’m not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with “hate.” He.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that’s my reward.

And we intend to expand it from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. As long as you fight it on the level of civil rights, you’re under Uncle Sam’s jurisdiction. You’re going to his court expecting him to correct the problem. He created the problem. He’s the criminal! You don’t take your case to the criminal, you take your criminal to court.

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.

If the government can’t get the black man justice, then it’s time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials.

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.