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In Order For A Man To Really Understand Himself He Must Be Part Of A Nation; He Must Have Some Land Of His Own, A God Of His Own, A Language Of His Own. Most Of All He Must Have Love And Devotion For His Own Kind.

-Malcolm X

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In Order For A Man To Really Understand Himself He Must Be Part Of A Nation; He Must Have Some Land Of His Own, A God Of His Own, A Language Of His Own. Most Of All He Must Have Love And Devotion For His Own Kind.

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Daring To Reach, To Climb, To Crawl, To Scratch, To Get Back Up When You've Been Knocked Down, To Push Forward - Ever Forward - To Forgive. It Means Sacrificing Everything If Necessary, To Carve Out A Place For Your Own Existence. It Means Living.

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Religion Of Islam

I Don't Mean Go Out And Get Violent; But At The Same Time You Should Never Be Nonviolent Unless You Run Into Some Nonviolence. I'm Nonviolent With Those Who Are Nonviolent With Me. But When You Drop That Violence On Me, Then You've Made Me Go Insane, And I'm Not Responsible For What I Do.

To Me, The Thing That Is Worse Than Death Is Betrayal. You See, I Could Conceive Death, But I Could Not Conceive Betrayal.

Anytime Anyone Is Enslaved Or In Any Way Deprived Of His Liberty, That Person, As A Human Being, As Far As I'm Concerned He Is Justified To Resort To Whatever Methods Necessary To Bring About His Liberty Again.

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Anytime You Find Someone More Successful Than You Are, Especially When You're Both Engaged In The Same Business - You Know They're Doing Something That You Aren't.

By Explaining The Difference Between Segregation And Separation. Segregation Is That Which Is Forced Upon An Inferior By A Superior. Separation Is Done Voluntarily By Two Equals. If I Have Children And They Live In My House, I Care For Them, They're Dependent Upon Me. And Their Dependence Upon Me Puts Me In A Position To Regulate Their Lives, Control Their Lives, Tell Them Where To Go, Where They Can't Go. That's A Form Of Segregation.

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Thoughtful White People Know They Are Inferior To Black People.

I Think That Any Black Man Who Teaches Black People To Turn The Other Cheek And Suffer Peacefully After They've Been Turning The Cheek And Suffering Peacefully For 400 Years In A Land Of Bondage, Under The Most Cruel, Inhuman And Wicked Slavemaster That Any People Have Ever Been Under, He Is Doing Those People An Injustice, And He's A Traitor To His Own People.

I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells It. I'm For Justice, No Matter Who It Is For Or Against. I'm A Human Being, First And Foremost, And As Such I'm For Whoever And Whatever Benefits Humanity As A Whole.

We Black Men Have A Hard Enough Time In Our Own Struggle For Justice, And Already Have Enough Enemies As It Is, To Make The Drastic Mistake Of Attacking Each Other And Adding More Weight To An Already Unbearable Load.

The Negro Is Nothing But An Ex-slave Who Is Now Trying To Get Himself Integrated Into The Slave Master's House.

I Learned Early That Crying Out In Protest Could Accomplish Things. My Older Brothers And Sister Had Started To School When, Sometimes, They Would Come In And Ask For A Buttered Biscuit Or Something And My Mother, Impatiently, Would Tell Them No. But I Would Cry Out And Make A Fuss Until I Got What I Wanted. I Remember Well How My Mother Asked Me Why I Couldn't Be A Nice Boy Like Wilfred; But I Would Think To Myself That Wilfred, For Being So Nice And Quiet, Often Stayed Hungry. So Early In Life, I Had Learned That If You Want Something, You Had Better Make Some Noise.

You Spend So Much Time Barking Up The Civil-rights Tree, You Don't Even Know There's A Human-rights Tree On The Same Floor.

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There Is No Better Than Adversity. Every Defeat, Every Heartbreak, Every Loss, Contains Its Own Seed, Its Own Lesson On How To Improve Your Performance The Next Time.

We May Disagree On Methods [with Martin Luther King], But We Don't Have To Argue All Day On Methods.

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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.

Even As A Muslim Minister In The Muslim Movement, I Have Always Said That I Would Work With Any Organization.

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

We Want Freedom By Any Means Necessary. We Want Justice By Any Means Necessary. We Want Equality By Any Means Necessary. We Don't Feel That In 1964, Living In A Country That Is Supposedly Based Upon Freedom, And Supposedly The Leader Of The Free World, We Don't Think That We Should Have To Sit Around And Wait For Some Segregationist Congressmen And Senators And A President From Texas In Washington, D.c., To Make Up Their Minds That Our People Are Due Now Some Degree Of Civil Rights. No, We Want It Now Or We Don't Think Anybody Should Have It.

When The Snakes Out In That Field Begin To Realize That If One Of Their Members Get Out Of Line, It's Going To Be Detrimental To All Of Them, They'll Keep That, Perhaps They'll Then Take The Necessary Steps To Keep Their Fellow Snakes Away From My Chickens Or Away From My Children If The Responsibility Is Placed Upon Them.

You Can't Hate Your Origin And Not End Up Hating Yourself. You Can't Hate Africa And Not Hate Yourself.

It's Liberty Or It's Death. It's Freedom For Everybody Or Freedom For Nobody.

I Admire The, The Stand Of China And The Stand Of Mao Tse- Tung, But I Can't Admire With Respect The Stand Of, Of Nehru In India. I Just Can't Do It.

You And I Have Never Seen Democracy; All We've Seen Is Hypocrisy.

There Is Nothing In Our Book, The Koran, That Teaches Us To Suffer Peacefully. Our Religion Teaches Us To Be Intelligent.

The Black Man In Africa Had Mastered The Arts And Sciences. He Knew The Course Of The Stars In The Universe Before The Man Up In Europe Knew That The Earth Wasn't Flat.

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

The White Man Has Created A Devil, To Bring Chaos Upon This Earth.

We Must Control The Politics And The Politicians Of Our Community. They Must No Longer Take Orders From Outside Forces. We Will Organize, And Sweep Out Of Office All Negro Politicians Who Are Puppets For The Outside Forces.

I Don't Have Any Hate. I've Got Some Sense. I'm Not Going To Let Anybody Who Hates Me Tell Me To Love Him. I'm Not That Way-out.

The Prison Systems In This Country Actually Are Exploitative And They Are Not In Any Way Rehabilitative.

Culture Is An Indispensable Weapon In The Freedom Struggle.

We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves... One Can't Unite Bananas With Scattered Leaves.

At The Same Time Reverend Galamison Policy Is Intelligent Enough Where He Can't Be Used To Attack Me.

When We Send Our Children To School, They Learn Nothing About Us Other Than We Used To Be Cotton Pickers. Why, Your Grandfather Was Nat Turner; Your Grandfather Was Toussaint L'ouverture; Your Grandfather Was Hannibal. It Was Your Grandfather's Hands Who Forged Civilization And It Was Your Grandmother's Hands Who Rocked The Cradle Of Civilization. But The Textbooks Tell Our Children Nothing.

That Morning Was When I First Began To Reappraise The 'white Man.' It Was When I First Began To Perceive That 'white Man,' As Commonly Used, Means Complexion Only Secondarily; Primarily It Described Attitudes And Actions.

The Negro's So-called 'revolt' Is Merely An Asking To Be Accepted Into The Existing System!

The Short-range Involves The Long-range. Immediate Steps Have To Be Taken To Reeducate Our People Into The, A More Real View Of Political, Economic, And Social Conditions In This Country, And Our Ability In, In A Self- Improvement Program To Gain Control Politically Over Every Community In Which We Predominate, And Also Over The Economy Of That Same Community As Here In Harlem. Instead Of All The Stores In Harlem Being Owned By White People, They Should Be Owned And Operated By Black People.

If You Have No Critics You'll Likely Have No Success.

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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.

When I Was In Prison, I Read An Article - Don't Be Shocked When I Say I Was In Prison. You're Still In Prison. That's What America Means: Prison.

The Young Whites, And Blacks, Too, Are The Only Hope That America Has, The Rest Of Us Have Always Been Living In A Lie.

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.

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.

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

I Think As An Intelligent Person You Would Agree That When You Are Teaching Among Oppressed People That They Should Be Relieved Of Their Oppression Not 100 Or 10 Years From Now, But Right Now, You're Going To Find Your Talk Is Going To Fall Upon Sympathetic Ears.

If You Are Not Willing To Pay The Price For Freedom, You Don't Deserve Freedom.

Growing Is The Result Of Learning.

Solve The Race Problem Here, And Once You Solve The Race Problem Here, You Don't Have To Send These Billions Of Dollars Abroad.

I Had Blind Faith In Him. My Faith In Elijah Muhammad Was More Blind And More Uncompromising Than Any Faith That Any Man Has Ever Had For Another Man. And So I Didn't Try And See Him As He Actually Was.

I'm With An Old Family" Was The Euphemism Used To Dignify The Professions Of White Folks' Cooks And Maids Who Talked So Affectedly Among Their Own Kind In Roxbury [massachusetts] That You Couldn't Even Understand Them.

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.

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

The Economic Philosophy Of Black Nationalism Only Means That Our People Need To Be Re-educated Into The Importance Of Controlling The Economy Of The Community In Which We Live, Which Means That We Won't Have To Constantly Be Involved In Picketing And Boycotting Other People In Other Communities In Order To Get Jobs.

I Am And Always Will Be A Muslim. My Religion Is Islam.

God Is Going To Punish The White Man For His Misdeeds Toward Black People.

The Most Disrespected Person In America Is The Black Woman. The Most Unprotected Person In America Is The Black Woman. The Most Neglected Person In America Is The Black Woman.

[people] Have A Fear Of The, The Muslim Movement And The Muslim Religion Because It Has A Tendency To Make The People Who Accept It Stick Together.

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.

I Have Rarely Talked To Anyone About My Mother, For I Believe That I Am Capable Of Killing A Person, Without Hesitation, Who Happened To Make The Wrong Kind Of Remark About My Mother. So I Purposely Don't Make Any Opening For Some Fool To Step Into.

...the Collective White Man Had Acted Like A Devil In Virtually Every Contact He Had With The World's Collective Non-white Man.

I Have Gone Through The Process Of Re-evaluating, Giving A Personal Re-evaluation To Everything That I Ever Believed And That I Did Believe While I Was A, A Member And A Minister.

Among Negroes We Have Negroes Who Are As White As Some White People. Still There's A Difference.

Now, The Black Man Here Was So-called Free By [abe] Lincoln 100 Years Ago. The Black Man In America Has An - Has A Purchasing Power Of 20 Billion Dollars. Now, And He's Educated.

It Gives [a Man] The Incentive To Develop His Dormant Potential So That When He Becomes A Part Of The Brotherhood Of Islam, And Is Identified Collectively In The Brotherhood Of Islam With The Brothers In Islam, At The Same Time This Also Gives Him The, It Has The Psychological Effect Of Giving Him The Incentive As An Individual To Develop All Of His Dormant Potential To Its Fullest Extent.

We Don't Think That We're Begging For Anything. We Think We're Demanding What Is Ours By Right. And All We're Asking For Is An Opportunity To Do Something For Ourselves, Rather Than To Sit Around As A Beggar, Begging For Jobs And Begging For Education From - For Someone Else For The Rest Of Our Lives.

The Common Goal Of 22 Million Afro-americans Is Respect As Human Beings, The God-given Right To Be A Human Being. Our Common Goal Is To Obtain The Human Rights America Has Been Denying Us. We Can Never Get Civil Rights In America Until Our Human Rights Are First Restored. We Will Never Be Recognized As Citizens There Until We Are First Recognized As Humans.

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