“I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.”

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do.

Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.

The most revolutionary statement in history is love thine enemy.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Too much agreement kills chat.

Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom.

Everybody changes, not just me.

If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

We will really be set back if people don’t take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote.

Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.