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

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

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.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

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