Be Peaceful, Be Courteous, Obey The Law,

At This Point I Hadn't Yet Gotten Deep Into The Historic Condition That Negroes In This Country Are Confronted With, But At That Point In My Prison Studies I, I Read, I Studied Islam As A Religion More So Than As I Later Come To Know It In Its Connection With The Plight Or Problem Of Negroes In This Country.

Anytime You Live In A Society Supposedly Based Upon Law And It Doesn't Enforce Its Own Laws Because The Color Of A Man's Skin Happens To Be Wrong, Then I Say Those People Are Justified To Resort To Any Means Necessary To Bring About Justice When The Government Can't Give Them Justice.

There Can Be No Black-white Unity Until There Is First Some Black Unity... We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves. We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

An Integrated Cup Of Coffee Isn't Sufficient Pay For Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor.

I Might Add How In The World Can You Say, Or Can Anyone Say, That It Will Dignify The American Negro To Beg In Or Wade [?] In Or Plead In When The People In Hungary Didn't Beg In? They Were Freedom Fighters. And They Fought For Their Freedom.