"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
"I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
"You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it."
"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power."
"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression."
"yes, i have cherished my "demagogue" role. i know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. and if i can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of america - then, all of the credit is due to allah. only the mistakes have been mine."
"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. I've had enough of someone else's propaganda, I had written to these friends. I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence."
