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First I Might Say That When A Person, When A Man Separates From His Wife, At The Out Start It's A Physical Separation But It's Not A Psychological Separation. He Still Thinks Of Her In, In Probably Warm Terms. And, But After The Physical Separation Has Taken, Existed For A Period Of Time, It Becomes A Psychological Separation As Well As Physical. And He Can Then Look At Her More Objectively. My Split Or Separation From The Black Muslim Movement At First Was Only A Physical Separation, But My Heart Was Still There And It Was Impossible For Me To, For Me To Look At It Objectively.

-Malcolm X

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First I Might Say

Malcolm X

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First I Might Say That When A Person, When A Man Separates From His Wife, At The Out Start It's A Physical Separation But It's Not A Psychological Separation. He Still Thinks Of Her In, In Probably Warm Terms. And, But After The Physical Separation Has Taken, Existed For A Period Of Time, It Becomes A Psychological Separation As Well As Physical. And He Can Then Look At Her More Objectively. My Split Or Separation From The Black Muslim Movement At First Was Only A Physical Separation, But My Heart Was Still There And It Was Impossible For Me To, For Me To Look At It Objectively.

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Any Negro Who Occupies A Position That Was Given To Him By The White Man, If You Analyze His Function, His Function Never Enables Him To Really Take A Firm, Uncompromising, Militant Stand On Problems That Confront Our People.

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Until The Image Of The Black Man In The Mind Of The Black Man Has Been Changed, There Will Always Be Delinquency, Parental And Juvenile. The Idea Is Not To Change The Attitude Of The White Man To The Black Man But To Change The Attitude Of The Black Man To Himself.

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Be Nonviolent Only With Those Who Are Nonviolent To You. And When You Can Bring Me A Nonviolent Racist, Bring Me A Nonviolent Segregationist, Then I'll Get Nonviolent. But Don't Teach Me To Be Nonviolent Until You Teach Some Of Those Crackers To Be Nonviolent.

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By Any Means Necessary.

God Is About To Eliminate The White Man From This Earth.

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I See America Through The Eyes Of The Victim. I Don’t See Any American Dream; I See An American Nightmare.

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How Can You Thank A Man For Giving You What's Already Yours?

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No Black Person Married To A White Person Can Speak For Me!

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My Faith In God Is Such That I Am Not Afraid.

Once The White Man Let The Negro Get An Education, The Negro Began To Want What The White Man Has. But He Let Negroes Get An Education And Now They Are Demanding Integration; They Want To Have Exactly What He Has. And The White Man Is Not Going To Give It To Them!

Our Objective Is Complete Freedom, Justice And Equality By Any Means Necessary.

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Why Am I As I Am? To Understand That Of Any Person, His Whole Life, From Birth Must Be Reviewed. All Of Our Experiences Fuse Into Our Personality. Everything That Ever Happened To Us Is An Ingredient.

I Think The Only Way One Can Really Determine Whether Extremism In The Defense Of Liberty Is Justified, Is Not To Approach It As An American Or A European Or An African Or An Asian, But As A Human Being. If We Look Upon It As Different Types, Immediately We Begin To Think In Terms Of Extremism Being Good For One And Bad For Another, Or Bad For One And Good For Another. But If We Look Upon It, If We Look Upon Ourselves As Human Beings, I Doubt That Anyone Will Deny That Extremism In Defense Of Liberty, The Liberty Of Any Human Being, Is No Vice.

You Get Your Freedom By Letting Your Enemy Know That You'll Do Anything To Get It. Then You'll Get It. It's The Only Way You'll Get It.

A Man Without Any History Is Like A Tree Without Roots

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When You Expand The Civil-rights Struggle To The Level Of Human Rights, You Can Then Take The Case Of The Black Man In This Country Before The Nations In The Un. You Can Take It Before The General Assembly. You Can Take Uncle Sam Before A World Court. But The Only Level You Can Do It On Is The Level Of Human Rights. Civil Rights Keeps You Under His Restrictions, Under His Jurisdiction. Civil Rights Keeps You In His Pocket.

Anytime You Tell A Man To Turn The Other Cheek Or To Be Nonviolent In The Face Of A Violent Enemy, You're Making That Man Defenseless. You're Robbing Him Of His God-given Right To Defend Himself.

Any Way, Any Form Necessary To Defend Himself; Negro Should Reserve The Right To Do That Just The Same As Others Have The Right To Do It.

Segregation Is That Which Is Forced Upon An Inferior By A Superior. Separation Is Done Voluntarily By Two Equals.

Thoughtful White People Know They Are Inferior To Black People.

... The Young People Are The Ones Who Most Quickly Identify With The Struggle And The Necessity To Eliminate The Evil Conditions That Exist.

[jf] Kennedy Was A Deceitful Man. He Was A Cold-blooded Politician Whose Purpose Was To Get Elected.

Don't Be In A Hurry To Condemn Because He Doesn't Do What You Do Or Think As You Think Or As Fast. There Was A Time When You Didn't Know What You Know Today.

You Negroes Are Not Willing To Admit It Yet, But Integration Will Not Work. Why, It Is Against The White Man's Nature To Integrate You Into His House.

Today's Uncle Tom Doesn't Wear A Handkerchief On His Head. This Modern, Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Now Often Wears A Top Hat. He's Usually Well-dressed And Well-educated. He's Often The Personification Of Culture And Refinement. The Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Sometimes Speaks With A Yale Or Harvard Accent. Sometimes He Is Known As Professor, Doctor, Judge, And Reverend, Even Right Reverend Doctor. This Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Is A Professional Negro -by That I Mean His Profession Is Being A Negro For The White Man.

They [prisons] Are Not Designed To Rehabilitate The - The Inmate, Though The, The Public Propaganda Is That This Is Their Function.

The Real Names Of Our People Were Destroyed During Slavery. The Last Name Of My Forefathers Was Taken From Them When They Were Brought To America And Made Slaves, And Then The Name Of The Slave Master Was Given, Which We Refuse, We Reject That Name Today And Refuse It. I Never Acknowledge It Whatsoever.

I Think That The Black People In This Country Have The Reached The Point Where They Should Reserve The Right To Do Whatever Is Necessary To See That They Exercise Complete Control Over The Politicians In The Politician, In The Politics Of Their Own Community By Whatever Means Necessary.

If You're Black, You Were Born In Jail, In The North As Well As The South. Stop Talking About The South. Long As You South Of The Canadian Border, You're South.

When You Have Your Own Bus, Then You Have Dignity. When You Have Your Own School, You Have Dignity. When You Have Your Own Country, You Have Dignity.when You Have Something Of Your Own, You Have Dignity. But Whenever You Are Begging For A Chance To Participate In That Which Belongs To Someone Else, Or Use That Which Belongs To Someone Else, On An Equal Basis With The Owner, That's Not Dignity. That's Ignorance.

I Am For Violence If Non-violence Means We Continue Postponing A Solution To The American Black Man's Problem Just To Avoid Violence.

I Believe When A Negro Church Is Bombed, That A White Church Should Be Bombed.

I Think The Black Man In America Wants To Be Recognized As A Human Being; And It's Almost Impossible For One Who Has Enslaved Another To Bring Himself To Accept The Person Who Used To Pull His Plow, Who Used To Be An Animal, Subhuman, Who Used To Be Considered As Such By Him-it's Almost Impossible For That Person In His Right Mind To Accept That Person As His Equal.

Here Was One Of The White Man's Most Characteristic Behavior Patterns - Where Black Men Are Concerned. He Loves Himself So Much That He Is Startled If He Discovers That His Victims Don't Share His Vainglorious Self-opinion.

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Usually When People Are Sad, They Don't Do Anything. They Just Cry Over Their Condition. But When They Get Angry, They Bring About A Change.

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Nobody Can Give You Freedom. Nobody Can Give You Equality Or Justice Or Anything. If You're A Man, You Take It.

There Were Always More Negroes In The Field Than There Was Negroes In The House. The Negro In The Field Caught Hell. He Ate Leftovers. In The House They Ate High Up On The Hog. The Negro In The Field Didn't Get Nothing But What Was Left Of The Insides Of The Hog. They Call 'em "chitt'lin'" Nowadays. In Those Days They Called Them What They Were: Guts. That's What You Were -- A Gut-eater. And Some Of You All Still Gut-eaters.

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It's Impossible For A White Person To Believe In Capitalism And Not Believe In Racism.

How Can A Negro Say America Is His Nation? He Was Brought Here In Chains; He Was Put In Slavery An Worked Like A Mule For Three Hundred Years; He Was Separated From His Land, His Culture, His God, His Language!

I, For One, Will Join In With Anyone -- I Don't Care What Color You Are -- As Long As You Want To Change This Miserable Condition That Exists On This Earth.

It’ll Be The Ballot Or It’ll Be The Bullet. It’ll Be Liberty Or It’ll Be Death. And If You’re Not Ready To Pay That Price Don’t Use The Word Freedom In Your Vocabulary.

The Negro Revolution Is Controlled By Foxy White Liberals, By The Government Itself. But The Black Revolution Is Controlled Only By God.

The Only Thing Power Respects, Is Power.

To Me, Political Action Involves Making The Politician Who Represents Us Know That He Either Produces Or He Is Out, And He's Out One Way Or Another.

How Can Anyone Be Against Love?

Wyatt Walker Can Walk Through Harlem. No One Would Know Him.

You Can Always Chase A Dream But It Will Not Count If You Never Catch It.

Only The Whites In The South Aren't Hypocritical About It. You Don't Find Any More Inter - There Is Just As Much Social Intermixing In The South As There - Between The Races As There Is In The North. Only They - In The South They Let You Know - Where They Stand, And In The North They Take A Hypocritical Approach Or Attitude Or Reaction.

Since The Main Problem That American, The Afro- Americans Have Is A Lack Of Cultural Identity. It Is Necessary To Teach [people] That They Had Some Type Of Identity, Culture, Civilization Before They Were Brought Here.

If A White Man Puts His Arm Around Me Voluntarily, That's Brotherhood.

The American System Itself Is Incapable. It Is As Incapable Of Producing Freedom For The Afro-american As The System Of A Chicken Is Of Producing A Duck Egg.

In Stating That The Idea Of A Separate State Is Not Practical, I'm Also Stating That The Idea Of Integration, Forced Integration, As They've Been Making An Effort To Do In This Country For The Past Years, Is Also Just As Impractical.

We Won't Organize Any Black Man To Be A Democrat Or A Republican Because Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out. Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out; Both Parties Have Sold Us Out. Both Parties Are Racist, And The Democratic Party Is More Racist Than The Republican Party.

If I Did See A White Man Who Was Willing To Go To Jail Or Throw Himself In Front Of A Car In Behalf Of The So-called "negro Cause," The Test That I'd Put To Him, I'd Ask Him, "do You Think Negro, When Negroes Are Being Attacked They Should Defend Themselves Even At The Risk Of Having To Kill The One Who's Attacking Them?" If That White Man Told Me, "yes," I'd Shake His Hand.

I Was In Prison And I Was An Atheist. I Didn't Believe In Anything.

I Was Going Through The Hardest Thing, Also The Greatest Thing, For Any Human Being To Do; To Accept That Which Is Already Within You, And Around You.

I Think You'll Find Also That If The Negro Ever Realizes That He Should Begin To Fight For Real For His Freedom, There Are Many Whites Who Will Fight On His Side With Him.

It Takes Heart To Be A Guerrilla Warrior Because You’re On Your Own. In Conventional Warfare You Have Tanks And A Whole Lot Of Other People With You To Back You Up - Planes Over Your Head And All That Kind Of Stuff. But A Guerrilla Is On His Own. All You Have Is A Rifle, Some Sneakers And A Bowl Of Rice, And That’s All You Need - And A Lot Of Heart.

As Bad As I Was, As Much Trouble And Worry As I Caused My Mother, I Loved Her.

Any Time You Know You're Within The Law, Within Your Legal Rights, Within Your Moral Rights, In Accord With Justice, Then Die For What You Believe In. But Don't Die Alone. Let Your Dying Be Reciprocal. This Is What Is Meant By Equality. What's Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander.

We Don't Go For Segregation. We Go For Separation. Separation Is When You Have Your Own. You Control Your Own Economy; You Control Your Own Politics; You Control Your Own Society; You Control Your Own Everything.

You Don't Integrate With A Sinking Ship.

Men Who Are Proud Of Being Black Marry Black Women; Women Who Are Proud Of Being Black Marry Black Men.

Those Type Of Whites Who Are Always Going To Jail With Negroes Are The Ones Who Tell Negroes To Be Loving And Be Kind And Be Patient And Be Nonviolent And Turn The Other Cheek.

We Declare Our Right On This Earth...to Be A Human Being, To Be Respected As A Human Being, To Be Given The Rights Of A Human Being In This Society, On This Earth, In This Day, Which We Intend To Bring Into Existence By Any Means Necessary.

The Same Rebellion, The Same Impatience, The Same Anger That Exists In The Hearts Of The Dark People In Africa And Asia Is Existing In The Hearts And Minds Of 20 Million Black People In This Country Who Have Been Just As Thoroughly Colonized As The People In Africa And Asia.

Just As Uncle Tom, Back During Slavery Used To Keep The Negroes From Resisting The Bloodhound Or Resisting The Ku Klux Klan By Teaching Them To Love Their Enemies Or Pray For Those Who Use Them Despitefully, Today Martin Luther King Is Just A Twentieth-century Or Modern Uncle Tom Or Religious Uncle Tom, Who Is Doing The Same Thing Today To Keep Negroes Defenseless In The Face Of Attack That Uncle Tom Did On The Plantation To Keep Those Negroes Defenseless In The Face Of The Attack Of The Klan In That Day.

Do Something For Yourself, And Then You Will Be Recognized By The Entire World As A Man Who Has Done For Himself What Others Have Done For Themselves.

Uncle Sam Is Forcing Integration Only Because He's Trying To Impress The People Of - Abroad That He's Morally Qualified To Be The Leader Of The World.

The Ability To Read Awoke Inside Of Me Some Long Dormant Craving To Be Mentally Alive.

One Of The First Things I Think Young People, Especially Nowadays, Should Learn Is How To See For Yourself And Listen For Yourself And Think For Yourself. Then You Can Come To An Intelligent Decision For Yourself. If You Form The Habit Of Going By What You Hear Others Say About Someone, Or Going By What Others Think About Someone, Instead Of Searching That Thing Out For Yourself And Seeing For Yourself, You Will Be Walking West When You Think You're Going East, And You Will Be Walking East When You Think You're Going West.

They Call Me "a Teacher, A Fomenter Of Violence." I Would Say Point Blank, "that Is A Lie. I'm Not For Wanton Violence, I'm For Justice."

A Negro Just Can't Be Whipped By Somebody White And Return With His Head Up In The Neighborhood, Especially In Those Days, When Sports And, To A Lesser Extent Show Business, Were The Only Fields Open To Negroes, And When The Ring Was The Only Place A Negro Could Whip A White Man And Not Be Lynched.

I Can't Turn Around Without Hearing About Some 'civil Rights Advance's White People Seem To Think The Black Man Ought To Be Shouting 'hallelujah's Four Hundred Years The White Man Has Had His Foot-long Knife In The Black Man's Back — And Now The White Man Starts To Wiggle The Knife Out, Maybe Six Inches! The Black Man's Supposed To Be Grateful? Why, If The White Man Jerked The Knife Out, It's Still Going To Leave A Scar!

If Not Now Then When, If Not Me Then Who?

Any Time The Negro Becomes Involved In Mature Political Action, Then The Resistance Of The Politicians Who Benefit From The Exploited Political System As It Now Stands Will Be Forced To Put, Exercise More Violent Action To Deprive The Negro Of His Mature Political Action.

The American Negro Never Can Be Blamed For His Racial Animosities - He Is Only Reacting To Four Hundred Years Of The Conscious Racism Of The American Whites.

The Common Enemy Is The White Man.

What Martin Luther King Is Doing Is Disarming The Black People Of America Of Their God-given Right And Of Their Natural Right.

[people] Earn Extra Money [in Prison] Selling Contraband, Dope, And Things Of That Sort To The Inmates, And So That Really It's An Exploiter.

While I Was In Prison, I Was Indulging In All Types Of Vice, Right Within The Prison. And I Never Was Ostracized As Much By The Penal Authorities While I Was Participating In All Of The Evils Of The Prison, As They Tried To Ostracize Me After I Became A Muslim.

I Might Say This, That The Problem Of The, The Solution For The Afro-american Is Two-fold - Long-range And Short-range.

People Don't Realize How A Man's Whole Life Can Be Changed By One Book.

In All Our Deeds, The Proper Value And Respect For Time Determines Success Or Failure.

I Believe In Recognizing Every Human Being As A Human Being - Neither White, Black, Brown, Or Red.

Foreign Diplomats Could Have Modeled Their Conduct On The Way The Negro Postmen, Pullman Porters, And Dining Car Waiters Of Roxbury [massachusetts] Acted, Striding Around As If They Were Wearing Top Hats And Cutaways.

When A Person Places The Proper Value On Freedom, There Is Nothing Under The Sun That He Will Not Do To Acquire That Freedom. Whenever You Hear A Man Saying He Wants Freedom, But In The Next Breath He Is Going To Tell You What He Won't Do To Get It, Or What He Doesn't Believe In Doing In Order To Get It, He Doesn't Believe In Freedom. A Man Who Believes In Freedom Will Do Anything Under The Sun To Acquire... Or Preserve His Freedom.

The Goal - Is The Dignity Of The Black Man In America. He Wants Respect As The Human Being. He Wants Recognition As A Human Being.

God Is More Lasting Than The White Man.

The Negro Neighborhood, Which Is Inferior, Is Begging For A Chance To - Integrate Itself Into That Which Is - Is Superior, Which Is Not Going To Happen. It's Going To Cause Trouble.

Most Of The Negro Leaders Who Get The Support Of The Power Structure End Up Being Against [reverend] Galamison.

History Is Not Hatred.

Let's Cool It, Brothers.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says Number One, [negro] Must Know - Have A Knowledge Of Himself. And This Gives Him Confidence In Himself. He - He Has Been Brainwashed By The Educational System That Exists Here In America To The Point Where He Feels He Was A Savage In The Jungle When He Was - Before He Was Brought Here. And This Destroys His Morale.

Most Of Those Negroes Have Been Given Those Jobs By The White Political Machine, And They Serve No Other Function Other Than To, As Window Dressing.

Learn The Language That They Understand, And When They Come Upon Our Doorstep To Talk We Can Talk, And They Will Get The Point. There Will Be A Dialog, There Will Be Some Communication, And I Am Quite Certain That Then There Will Be Some Understanding.

The Only Way The Two Can Have Equal Job Opportunities Is If Black People Have Factories As, As Well As White People Have Factories.

It Has Been Nine Years Since The Supreme Court Decision Outlawing Segregated Schools, Yet Less Than Ten Per Cent Of The Negro Students In The South Are In Integrated Schools. That Isn't Integration, That's Tokenism!

The Same As In A German Neighborhood, The Stores Are Run By Germans, And In A Chinese Neighborhood They're Run By Chinese. In The Negro Neighborhood The Businesses Should Be Owned And Operated By Negroes And, Thereby, They Would Be Creating Employment For Negroes.

I Want To Be Remembered As Someone Who Was Sincere. Even If I Made Mistakes, They Were Made In Sincerity. If I Was Wrong, I Was Wrong In Sincerity.

In The Past, Yes, I Have Made Sweeping Indictments Of All White People. I Never Will Be Guilty Of That Again - As I Know Now That Some White People Are Truly Sincere, That Some Truly Are Capable Of Being Brotherly Toward A Black Man. The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Made Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

We Can't Teach What We Don't Know, And We Can't Lead Where We Can't Go

Actually We Are Muslims Because We Believe In The Religion Of Islam.

Religion Of Islam

I Used The Word 'negro' And I Was Firmly Corrected

The White People Who Are Guilty Of White Supremacy Are Trying To Hide Their Own Guilt By Accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Of Teaching Black Supremacy When He Tries To Uplift The Mentality, The Social, Mental And Economic Condition Of The Black People In America.

Since The White People Collectively Have Practiced The Worst Form Of Hatred Against Negroes In America And They Know That They Are Guilty Of It, Now When The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Comes Along And Begins To List The Historic Deed - The Historic Attitude, The Historic Behavior Of The White Man In This Country Toward The Black People In This Country, Again, The White People Are So Guilty And They Can't Stop Doing These Things To Make Mr. Muhammad Appear To Be Wrong, So They Hide Their Wrong By Saying "he Is Teaching Hatred."

You Have The Upper Class Negroes Who Are The Modern Day Uncle Toms Or The 20th Century Uncle Toms. They Don't Wear A Handkerchief Anymore. They Wear Top Hats. They're Called Doctor, They're Called - Reverend, But They're Still - They Play The Same Role Today That Uncle Tom Played On The Plantation.

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Hating Yourself

Here I Am, Back In Mecca. I Am Still Traveling, Trying To Broaden My Mind, For I've Seen Too Much Of The Damage Narrow-mindedness Can Make Of Things, And When I Return Home To America, I Will Devote What Energies I Have To Repairing The Damage.

After Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor, We Have Some Back Pay Coming, A Bill Owed To Us That Must Be Collected.

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