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I've Never Seen A Sincere White Man, Not When It Comes To Helping Black People. Usually Things Like This Are Done By White People To Benefit Themselves. The White Man's Primary Interest Is Not To Elevate The Thinking Of Black People, Or To Waken Black People, Or White People Either. The White Man Is Interested In The Black Man Only To The Extent That The Black Man Is Of Use To Him. The White Man's Interest Is To Make Money, To Exploit.

-Malcolm X

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I've Never Seen A Sincere White Man, Not When It Comes To Helping Black People. Usually Things Like This Are Done By White People To Benefit Themselves. The White Man's Primary Interest Is Not To Elevate The Thinking Of Black People, Or To Waken Black People, Or White People Either. The White Man Is Interested In The Black Man Only To The Extent That The Black Man Is Of Use To Him. The White Man's Interest Is To Make Money, To Exploit.

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Religion Of Islam

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

Religion Of Islam

When The People Who Are In Power Want To Use Again, Create An Image, To Justify Something That's Bad, They Use The Press. And They'll Use The Press To Create A Humanitarian Image, For A Devil, Or A Devil Image For A Humanitarian. They'll Take A Person Who's A Victim Of The Crime, And Make It Appear He's The Criminal, And They'll Take The Criminal And Make It Appear That He's The Victim Of The Crime.

You Don't Stick A Knife In A Man's Back Nine Inches And Then Pull It Out Six Inches And Say You're Making Progress ... No Matter How Much Respect, No Matter How Much Recognition, Whites Show Towards Me, As Far As I Am Concerned, As Long As It Is Not Shown To Everyone Of Our People In This Country, It Doesn't Exist For Me.

If Integration Will Get [black Man] That [respect As The Human Being], All Right. If Segregation Will Get Him That, All Right. If Separation Will Get Him That, All Right.but After He Gets Integration And He Still Doesn't Have This Dignity And This Recognition As A Human Being, Then His Problem Is Still Not Solved.

Ten Guards And The Warden Couldn't Have Torn Me Out Of Those Books. Months Passed Without Even Thinking About Being Imprisoned....i Had Never Been So Truly Free In My Life.

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If You're Not Careful, The Newspapers Will Have You Hating The People Who Are Being Oppressed, And Loving The People Who Are Doing The Oppressing.

It"s Good To Keep Wide-open Ears And Listen To What Everybody Else Has To Say, But When You Come To Make A Decision, You Have To Weigh All Of What You"ve Heard On Its Own, And Place It Where It Belongs, And Come To A Decision For Yourself; You"ll Never Regret It. But If You Form The Habit Of Taking What Someone Else Says About A Thing Without Checking It Out For Yourself, You"ll Find That Other People Will Have You Hating Your Friends And Loving Your Enemies.

Not A State Within A State, But The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is, Is Saying That The Black Man, Since The White Man, Has Found It Impossible To Bring About Integration, Other Than Toke On A Ta - Other Than On A Token Basis, And Which Proves That The, The Two Of Us, The Ex-slave And The Master, Can't Live In The Same House As Equals.

Since Integration Is So Slow, And The White Man Knows The Problem Must Be Solved, The Only Thing That He Can Do Tomorrow Is, Is Separate, Because We're Already Separated.

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

White People Whom I Have Met, Who Have Accepted Islam, They Don't Regard Themselves As White But As Human Beings.

Allah Always Gives You Signs, When You Are With Him, That He Is With You.

I Don't Think You Can Having An Opportunity To Ride Either On The Front Or The Back Or In The Middle Of Someone Else's Bus Doesn't Dignify You.

I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells It.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us The Religion Of Islam, Which Is A Religion Of Peace.

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If You're Born In America With A Black Skin, You're Born In Prison, And The Masses Of Black People In America Today Are Beginning To Regard Our Plight Or Predicament In This Society As One Of A Prison Inmate.

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.

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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.

Any Time You Demonstrate Against Segregation And A Man Has The Audacity To Put A Police Dog On You, Kill That Dog, Kill Him, I'm Telling You, Kill That Dog. I Say It If They Put Me In Jail Tomorrow, Kill That Dog. Then You'll Put A Stop To It.

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If The Black Man Is Allowed To Separate And Go Into Some Land Of His Own Where He Can Solve His Own Problems, There Won't Be Any Explosion, And The Negroes Who Want To Stay With The White Man, Let Them Stay With The White Man - But Those Who Want To Leave, Let Them Go To The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

You Have A Race Problem That Must Be Solved, Or Else You Will Alienate Every Non-white Person On This Earth Within The Next Few Years, Or Within The Next Few Months.

Liberty Or Death Was What Brought About The Freedom Of Whites In This Country From The English.

The 22 Million Or 30 Million, Whatever The Case May Be, Afro-americans In The United States Were Still Africans.

I Shall Never Rest Until I Have Undone The Harm I Did To So Many Well-meaning, Innocent Negroes Who Through My Own Evangelistic Zeal Now Believe In Him Even More Fanatically And More Blindly Than I Did.

Only Time [jf] Kennedy Made Any, Took Any Action To Even Look Like He Identified With Negroes Was When He Was Forced To. Kennedy Didn't Even Make His Speech Based On This Problem Being A Moral Issue Until Negroes Exploded In Birmingham.

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library... I Could Spend The Rest Of My Life Reading, Just Satisfying My Curiosity.

I Had One Warden Tell Me Since I've Been Out, And I Visited An Inmate In Prison Right Here In New York, Warden Fay Up At Green Haven. I Visited An Inmate In Prison And He Told Me That He Didn't Want Anybody In There Trying To Spread This Religion.

To Me, The Thing That Is Worse Than Death Is Betrayal.

Betraying Friends

Whether We Are Christians Or Muslims Or Nationalists Or Agnostics Or Atheists, We Must First Learn To Forget Our Differences. If We Have Differences, Let Us Differ In The Closet; When We Come Out In Front, Let Us Not Have Anything To Argue About Until We Get Finished Arguing With The Man. If The Late President Kennedy Could Get Together With Khrushchev And Exchange Some Wheat, We Certainly Have More In Common With Each Other Than Kennedy And Khrushchev Had With Each Other.

White Individuals That Have Been Going To Jail. Segregation Still Exists; Discrimination Still Exists. A Few Isolated White People Whose Individual Acts Are Designed To Eliminate This, That Or, Or The Next Thing But, Yet, It Is Never Eliminated Is In No Way Impressive To Me.

Instead Of Working For White Man And Helping Him Hold Up A Government That Continues To Suppress Us Socially And, And Exploit Us Economically And Oppress Us Politically, Let Us Go And Enter Our Own Territory And Use Our Own Talents To Uplift Ourselves By Our Own Bootstraps. And Then He Will Recognize Us For What We Are.

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 The Various Groups In America Had Been Less Selfish And Had Permitted Different Representatives From The Groups To Travel Into Foreign Countries, And Broaden Their Own Scope, And Come Back And Educate The Movements They Represented, Not Only Would This Have Made The Groups To Which They Belonged More Enlightened And More Worldly In The International Sense, But It Also Would Have Given The Independent African States Abroad A Better Understanding Of The Groups In The United States, And What They Stand For, What They Represent.

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.

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

Everybody Shall Be Accepted No Matter What They Stand For, You Are Not Always Going To Agree On Their Faith.

The Junkie Can Never Start To Cure Himself Until He Recognizes His True Condition.

What The White Man In America Needs To Realize Is There's A New Thinking Among Black People Today Which Makes Them Not Willing To Sit Around And Wait For Five Years To Get This Problem Solved, Much Less A Hundred Years.

It Is Only After The Deepest Darkness That The Greatest Light Can Come; It Is Only After Extreme Grief That The Greatest Joy Can Come.

The Constitution Of The United States Of America Clearly Affirms The Right Of Every American Citizen To Bear Arms. And As Americans, We Will Not Give Up A Single Right Guaranteed Under The Constitution.

All Of Us Were Mischievous At Some Time Or Another, I More So Than Any Of The Rest. [my Brother] Philbert And I Kept A Battle Going. ... Even In Our Fighting, There Was A Feeling Of Brotherly Union.

Any Group, Any Group That Can't Work With All Other Groups, If They Are Genuinely Interested In Solving The Problems Of The Negro Collectively Why, I Don't Think That That Group Is Really Sincerely Motivated Toward Reaching A Solution.

Read Absolutely Everything You Get Your Hands On Because You'll Never Know Where You'll Get An Idea From.

New York White Youth Were Killing Victims; That Was A 'sociological' Problem. But When Black Youth Killed Somebody, The Power Structure Was Looking To Hang Somebody.

What You Did To One, You Did To All. So They Couldn't Have That Type Of Religion Being Taught In The Prison.

One Of The Tricks Of The West Is To Use Or Create Images, They Create Images Of A Person Who Doesn't Go Along With Their Views And Then They Make Certain That This Image Is Distasteful, And Then Anything That That Person Has To Say From Thereon, From Thereon In, Is Rejected.

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

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.

The Law Of Nature Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked. And God's Law Itself Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked.so, Peaceful Suffering And Passive Resistance And All Of That Stuff Is All Right Maybe In India Somewhere, Where The People In India Outnumber The Whites - About A Million To One.but Here In America, When You Tell That's Like An Elephant Sitting Down On A - On A Mouse In India With [mahatma] Gandhi.

Passive Resistance

When You Mentioned Something About Self Improvement, The Implication Is That The Negro Is Something Distinct Or Different, And, Therefore, Needs To Learn How To Improve Himself. Negro Leaders Resent This Being Said, Not Because They Don't Know That It's True, But They're Thinking, They're Looking At It Personally. They Think That The Implication Is Directed Even At Them, And That They, And They Duck This Responsibility.

I Don't Advocate Violence; But If A Man Steps On My Toes, I'll Step On His.

Forget The Methods Or The Differences In Methods. As Long As We Agree That The Thing That The Afro-american Wants And Needs Is Recognition And Respect As A Human Being.

My Contention Is That If You Trace It Back, It Was The People Of The East Who Brought Them Out Of The Dark Ages, Who Brought About The Period, Or Ushered In Or Initiated The Atmosphere That Brought Into Europe The Period Known As The Renaissance.

Hatred And Anger Are Powerless When Met With Kindness.

Just As A Tree Without Roots Is Dead, A People Without History Or Cultural Roots Also Becomes A Dead People.

If It's Necessary To Form A Black Nationalist Army, We'll Form A Black Nationalist Army. It'll Be Ballot Or The Bullet. It'll Be Liberty Or It'll Be Death.

Power Never Takes A Back Step Only In The Face Of More Power.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That The Way To Solve This Problem Is For The White Man To Give Us Some Territory Of Our Own. And Then Our People - We Have Technical Know-how, We Have Agricultural Know-how. We Have Been Working For The White Man In His Business. In Every Phase Of His Government We Work.

There Can Be No Black-white Unity Until There Is First Some Black Unity.

Be Peaceful, Be Courteous, Obey The Law, Respect Everyone; But If Someone Puts His Hand On You, Send Him To The Cemetery.

Here You Have 22 Million Afro-americans, Black People Today, Catching More Hell Than Patrick Henry Ever Saw. And I'm Here To Tell You, In Case You Don't Know It, That You Got A New - You Got A New Generation Of Black People In This Country, Who Don't Care Anything Whatsoever About Odds. They Don't Want To Hear You Old Uncle Tom Handkerchief Heads Talking About The Odds.

A New World Order Is In The Making, And It Is Up To Us To Prepare Ourselves That We May Take Our Rightful Place In It.

The Cornerstones Of This Country's Operation Are Economic And Political Strength And Power. The Black Man Doesn't Have The Economic Strength - And It Will Take Time For Him To Build It. But Right Now The American Black Man Has The Political Strength And Power To Change His Destiny Overnight.

The Black Man In America Is The Same As The Jews Were In Bondage Under Pharaoh. We Are Strangers In A Land That Is Not Ours. We Are Rejected By This Type Of Modern Pharaoh Or Pharohnic Society.

The Messenger Has Seen God. He Was With Allah And Was Given Divine Patience With The Devil. He Is Willing To Wait For Allah To Deal With This Devil. Well, Sir, The Rest Of Us Black Muslims Have Not Seen God, We Don't Have This Gift Of Divine Patience With The Devil. The Younger Black Muslims Want To See Some Action.

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Makes Black People Brave Enough, Men Enough To Defend Ourselves No Matter What The Odds Are, The White Man Runs Around Here With A Doctrine That Mr. Muhammad Is Advocating The Violence When He Is Actually Telling Negroes To Defend Themselves Against Violent People.

Nonviolence With Dr. [martin Luther ]king Is Only A Method. That's Not His Objective.

Dr Martin Luther King

I Know That Societies Often Have Killed People Who Have Helped To Change Those Societies. And If I Can Die Having Brought Any Light, Having Exposed Any Meaningful Truth That Will Help Destroy The Racist Cancer That Is Malignant In The Body Of America, Then, All Credit Is Due To Allah. Only The Mistakes Have Been Mine.

You Know, If Ever There Was A People Who Should Know How To Practice Brotherhood, It Is The American Negro And It Is The People Of Egypt.

I Don’t Feel That I Am A Visitor In Ghana Or In Any Part Of Africa. I Feel That I Am At Home.

The Law Of Nature Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked. And God's Law Itself Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked.

Some Things Are Better Done Than Said.

Education Is The Passport To The Future, For Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Prepare For It Today.

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