You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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.
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 the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
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 ti...
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is...
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.