"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam."
- Malcolm X

"For some of you, I am old enough to be your grandfather. I am optimistic about the future, and this optimism is because of insight, not delusion. You are young, and you should be full of optimism. Take care not to develop a pessimistic view of the future. If you become pessimistic and adopt a "so-what attitude", inaction and isolation will follow. Nothing will be done in such a situation, and that is exactly what the enemy desires."
- Ayatollah Khamenei