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Internal Differences Within The Nation Of Islam Forced Me Out Of It. I Did Not Leave Of My Own Free Will. But Now That It Has Happened, I Intend To Make The Most Of It. Now That I Have More Independence Of Action, I Intend To Use A More Flexible Approach Toward Working With Others To Get A Solution To This Problem.

-Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

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Internal Differences Within The Nation Of Islam Forced Me Out Of It. I Did Not Leave Of My Own Free Will. But Now That It Has Happened, I Intend To Make The Most Of It. Now That I Have More Independence Of Action, I Intend To Use A More Flexible Approach Toward Working With Others To Get A Solution To This Problem.

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Truth Is On The Side Of The Oppressed Today, It's Against The Oppressor.

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If You Have An All-white Neighborhood You Don't Call It A Segregated Neighborhood. But You Call An All-black Neighborhood A Segregated Neighborhood. And Why? Because The Segregated Neighborhood Is The One That's Controlled By The Ou - From The Outside By Others, But A Separate Neighborhood Is A Neighborhood That Is Independent, It's Equal, It Can Do - It Can Stand On Its Own Two Feet, Such As The Neighborhood. It's An Independent, Free Neighborhood, Free Community.

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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!

The White Man Is By Nature A Devil And Must Be Destroyed.

The Other Slaves In The Field Never Let That House Slave Knew - Know What They Were Really Thinking. If The House Slave Said, Well One Of These Days All Of Us Will Live In The Plantation, They Said, Uh Huh. They Went Along With Him. But If You Came Up To Them And Said, Let's Go, They Would Be Gone Just Like That.and In, In America You Have The Same Situation.you Have The Vast Masses Who Are Still Slaves.

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

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

We Were Truly All The Same (brothers) - Because Their Belief In One God Had Removed The White From Their Minds, The White From Their Behavior, And The White From Their Attitude.

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 A White Man Puts His Arm Around Me Voluntarily, That's Brotherhood. But If You - If You Hold A Gun On Him And Make Him Embrace Me And Pretend To Be Friendly Or Brotherly Toward Me, Then That's Not Brotherhood, That's Hypocrisy. And What America Is Trying To Do Is Pass Laws To Force Whites To Pretend That They Want Negroes Into Their Schools Or Into - In Their Places Of Employment.

I Could See From This, That Perhaps If White Americans Could Accept The Oneness Of God, Then Perhaps, Too, They Could Accept In Reality The Oneness Of Man - And Cease To Measure, And Hinder, And Harm Others In Terms Of Their "differences" In Color.

Just Like Pharaoh Couldn't Get A Solution To His Problem Until He Talked To Moses, Or Nebuchadnezzar Or Belshazzar Couldn't Get A Solution To His Problem Until He Talked To Daniel, The White Man In America Today Will Never Understand The Race Problem Or Come Anywhere Near Getting A Solution To The Race Problem Until He Talks To The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The Negro Fought And Bled And Died In Every War The White Man Waged, And He Still Won't Give You Justice. You Nursed His Baby And Cleaned Behind His Wife, And He Still Won't Give You Freedom; You Turned The Other Cheek While He Lynched You And Raped Your Women, But He Still Won't Give You Equality.

Just As The White Man And Every Other Person On This Earth Has God-given Rights, Natural Rights, Civil Rights, Any Kind Of Rights That You Can Think Of, When It Comes To Defending Himself, Black People - We Should Have The Right To Defend Ourselves Also.

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.

America Is Subsidizing What Is Left Of The Prestige And Strength Of The Once Mighty Britain. The Sun Has Set Forever On That Monocled, Pith-helmeted Resident Colonialist, Sipping Tea With His Delicate Lady In The Non-white Colonies Being Systematically Robbed Of Every Valuable Resource. Britain's Superfluous Royalty And Nobility Now Exist By Charging Tourists To Inspect The Once Baronial Castles, And By Selling Memoirs, Perfumes, Autographs, Titles, And Even Themselves.

If You Stick A Knife Nine Inches Into My Back And Pull It Out Three Inches, That Is Not Progress.

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The Religion Of Islam Actually Restores One's Human Feelings, Human Rights, Human Incentives, Human, His Talent.

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I'm Inclined To Believe That Most Negro Leaders, Professional Negroes Are Professional Negroes. Being A Negro Is Their Professional, And Being A Profe - A Leader Is Their Profession. And Usually They Say Exactly What The White Man Wants - Wants To Hear Them Say.

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There Can Be No Black-white Unity Until There Is First Some Black Unity... We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves. We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

The White Man Is Going To Keep You Integration-minded Negroes Cooped Up Here In America, And When You Discover That The White Man Is A Trickster, A Devil, That He Has No Intentions Of Integrating, Then You Negroes Will Run Wild.

I Don't Believe In Any Form Of Unjustified Extremism! But When A Man Is Exercising Extremism -- A Human Being Is Exercising Extremism -- In Defense Of Liberty For Human Beings It's No Vice, And When One Is Moderate In The Pursuit Of Justice For Human Beings I Say He Is A Sinner.

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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 Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins Or Any Of These Compromising Negros Who Say Exactly What The White Man Wants To Hear Is Interviewed Anywhere In The Country You Don't Get Anybody To Offset What They Say. But Whenever A Black Man Stands Up And Says Something That White People Don't Like Then The First Thing That Man Does Is Run Around To Try And Find Somebody To Say Something To Offset What Has Just Been Said. This Is Natural But It Is Done.

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

Policies Change, And Programs Change, According To Time.but Objective Never Changes. You Might Change Your Method Of Achieving The Objective, But The Objective Never Changes. Our Objective Is Complete Freedom, Complete Justice, Complete Equality, By Any Means Necessary

I Don't Think That Anyone Has Been Really Created More By The White Press Than The Civil Right Leaders.

An Integrated Cup Of Coffee Isn't Sufficient Pay For Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor.

Why Can't The Black Man Have A God? What's So Wrong When A Black Man Says His God Will Protect Him Form His White Foe? If Jehovah Can Slay Philistines For The Jews, Why Can't Allah Slay Crackers For The So-called Negro?

The Most Unprotected Person In America Is The Black Woman.

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

It's Easy To Become A Satellite Today Without Even Being Aware Of It. This Country Can Seduce God. Yes, It Has That Seductive Power; The Power Of The Dollar.

That Value System Has Been Handed Right Down In European Society. And Today When You Find Negroes, If They Even Look Like They're Adopting These So-called Middle-class Values, Standards, It's Not That They Are Taking Something From The White Man, But They Are Probably Identifying Again With The Level Or Standard That These Same Whites Have Gotten From Them Back During That Period.

If You Stick A Knife Nine Inches Into My Back And Pull It Out Three Inches, That Is Not Progress. Even If You Pull It All The Way Out, That Is Not Progress. Progress Is Healing The Wound, And America Hasn't Even Begun To Pull Out The Knife.

The Negro Was Taught To Speak The White Man's Tongue, Worship The White God, And Accept The White Man As His Superior.

No Religion Will Ever Make Me Forget The Condition Of Our People In This Country...no God, No Religion, No Nothing Will Make Me Forget It Until It Stops, Until It's Elimitnated. I Want To Make That Point Clear.

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We Do Not Condemn The Preachers As An Individual But We Condemn What They Teach. We Urge That The Preachers Teach The Truth, To Teach Our People The One Important Guiding Rule Of Conduct - Unity Of Purpose.

I Admire A Man Who Fights A Battle Against Opposition, And If There Wasn't Something About [reverend] Galamison That The People, I Notice That The Power Structure Is Against Galamison.

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of Man, All Men, But I Don't Believe In Brotherhood With Anybody Who Doesn't Want Brotherhood With Me. I Believe In Treating People Right, But I'm Not Going To Waste My Time Trying To Treat Somebody Right Who Doesn't Know How To Return The Treatment.

That's Where Dr. [martin Luther] King Is Mixed Up. His Goals Should Be The Solution Of The Problem Of The Black Man In America.

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

That's Not Our Problem, That's America's Problem. If The Average American Knew The Trouble That Uncle Sam Is In All Over This Earth, They Could See That It - We Are Closer Toward Getting A Separate Territory In This Country Than The Integrationists Are Toward Getting Integration.

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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.

So Early In My Life, I Had Learned That If You Want Something, You Had Better Make Some Noise.

Each Of Us Should Make The Most Of Our Lives. We Should Give Life Our Best-let Us Use Our Lives More Wisely To Chase Our Dreams, Find Our True Purpose, And Be As Happy And Successful As Possible.

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

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In Harlem, For Instance, All Of The Stores Are Owned By White People, All Of The Buildings Are Owned By White People. The Black People Are Just There - Paying Rent, Buying The Groceries; But They Don't Own The Stores, Clothing Stores, Food Stores, Any Kind Of Stores; Don't Even Own The Homes That They Live In. They Are All Owned By Outsiders, And For These Run-down Apartment Dwellings, The Black Man In Harlem Pays More Money Than The Man Down In The Rich Park Avenue Section.

A Cat That's Inside Of Your House That Is Angry And Dissatisfied And Hostile Is More Dangerous To You Than A Full-grown Lion Is On The Outside.

Why Must I Run Against A Negro? We Have Had Enough Of Negroes Running Against And Fighting With Each Other. The Better Bet Is That We Would Put A Muslim Candidate In The Field Against A Devil, Somebody Who Is Against All We Stand For.

For Tommorow Belongs To Those That Prepare For It Today.

These Negroes Who Go For Integration And Intermarriage Are Linking Up With The Very People Who Lynched Their Fathers, Raped Their Mothers, And Put Their Kid Sisters In The Kitchen To Scrub Floors.

As Long As You Are Convinced You Have Never Done Anything, You Can Never Do Anything.

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.

No One Should Advocate Any Peaceful Suffering To Black People, Unless The Black - White Man Is Going To Practice The Same Kind Of Peaceful Suffering.

Never Have I Witnessed Such Sincere Hospitality And The Overwhelming Spirit Of True Brotherhood As Is Practiced By People Of All Colours And Races Here In This Ancient Holy Land, The Home Of Abraham, Muhammad, And All The Other Prophets Of The Holy Scriptures. For The Past Week, I Have Been Utterly Speechless And Spellbound By The Graciousness I See Displayed All Around Me By People Of All Colours.

The Government Has Departments To Deal With The Special Interest Groups That Make Themselves Heard And Felt. A Department Of Agriculture Cares For The Farmers' Needs. There Is A Department Of Health, Education And Welfare. There Is A Department Of The Interior - In Which The Indians Are Included. Is The Farmer, The Doctor, The Indian, The Greatest Problem In America Today? No - It Is The Black Man! There Ought To Be A Pentagon-sized Washington Department Dealing With Every Segment Of The Black Man's Problems.

Without Education, You Are Not Going Anywhere In This World.

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

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.

[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.

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

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

Anytime You Live In A Society Supposedly Based Upon Law And It Doesn't Enforce Its Own Laws Because The Color Of A Man's Skin Happens To Be Wrong, Then I Say Those People Are Justified To Resort To Any Means Necessary To Bring About Justice When The Government Can't Give Them Justice.

Those Who Stay Here Can Help Those Who Go Back, And Those Who Go Back Can Help Those Who Stay Here In The Same Way That When Jews Go To Israel, The Jews In America Help Those In Israel And The Jews In Israel Help Those In America.

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.

Learn To See, Listen, And Think For Yourself.

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Revolutions Are Never Waged Singing "we Shall Overcome." Revolutions Are Based Upon Bloodshed.

If I Can't Run My Neighborhood You Won't Want Me In Your Neighborhood.

Now The White Man's Time Is Over. Tokenism Will Not Help Him, And It Will Doom Us. Complete Separation Will Save Us - And Who Knows, It Might Make God Decide To Give The White Devil A Few More Years.

No Sane Black Man Really Wants Integration! No Sane White Man Really Wants Integration!

We Who Follow The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Feel That When You Try And Pass Integration Laws Here In America, Forcing White People To Pretend That They Are Accepting Black People, What You Are Doing Is Making White People Act In A Hypocritical Way.

If The So-called 'christianity' Now Being Practiced In America Displays The Best That World Christianity Has Left To Offer - No One In His Right Mind Should Need Any Much Greater Proof That Very Close At Hand Is The End Of Christianity.

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

I Might Add How In The World Can You Say, Or Can Anyone Say, That It Will Dignify The American Negro To Beg In Or Wade [?] In Or Plead In When The People In Hungary Didn't Beg In? They Were Freedom Fighters. And They Fought For Their Freedom.

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

This Is A God-given Right Of Any Man.anytime You Have A Man Who Is Getting Lynched, And What Are His People Supposed To Do? Sit Around And Forgive The Lyncher Or Wait On The United States Government To Go In And Get The Lyncher, Like The United States Government Did In The Case Of, Of Charles Mack Parker, And The Fbi Found Who Were The Guilty Lynchers, And Right To This Day, The Fbi, The Highest Law Enforcement Body In The Land, Has Yet To Bring The Lynchers Of Mack Parker To Justice?

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.

The Political Philosophy Of Black Nationalism Means That The Black Man Should Control The Politics And The Politicians In His Own Community; No More.

Negroes Just Can't Judge Each Other According To Color, Because We Are All Colors, All Complexions.

It Takes Two To Tango; When I Go, You Go.

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

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.

They Tell Us We Are All Citizens, That We Were Born In This Country. Well, A Cat Can Have Kittens In The Oven, But That Doesn't Make Them Biscuits!

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.

The Price Of Freedom Is Death.

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That Is A Lie. I'm Not For Wanton Violence, I'm For Justice.

We're All In The Same Boat And We All Are Going To Catch The Same Hell From The Same Man.

The Chinese In This Country Aren't Asking For Integration.

I Might Add, The Whites Who Came Here Only Say 50 Years Ago As Immigrants Have Come Into This Country, They Have Set Up Businesses. They've Developed These Businesses Into An Industry.

Any Time You See Someone More Successful Than You Are, They Are Doing Something You Aren't.

Respect Me, Or Put Me To Death.

I Am A Muslim And . . . My Religion Makes Me Be Against All Forms Of Racism. It Keeps Me From Judging Any Man By The Color Of His Skin. It Teaches Me To Judge Him By His Deeds .

All Over This World People Are Standing Up For Freedom.

An English Writer Telephoned Me From London, Asking Questions. One Was, ‘what’s Your Alma Mater?’ I Told Him, ‘books.

Asking Questions

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.

Once Negro Community Recognize It As Such, They Can Adopt The Same Measures Against The Community That Harbors The Criminals Who Are Responsible For This Activity.

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

There Were Tens Of Thousands Of Pilgrims, From All Over The World. They Were Of All Colors, From Blue-eyed Blonds To Black-skinned Africans. But We Were All Participating In The Same Ritual, Displaying A Spirit Of Unity And Brotherhood That My Experiences In America Had Led Me To Believe Never Could Exist Between The White And Non-white.

If Someone Puts Their Hands On You Make Sure They Never Put Their Hands On Anybody Else Again.

Police Violence

Police Brutality

If You Read The Story Of Slavery And See The Part That The Uncle Tom Played In The Plantation, And Then You See How The White Man Today Has Changed His Tactics, But He Still Occupies The Same Position, In That Same Context You Find Uncle Tom. He Has Changed His Tactics But He Still Occupies The Same Position.

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

Only In This Form Of Separation The Black Man Is Exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That We Should Be Separate, All Right, But In This Separate State Or Separate Existence, The Black Man Should Be Given The Opportunity And The Incentive To Do For Himself What The White Man Has Done For Himself.

I Say That The Negro, When He Is, When, When They Cease To Look At Him As A Negro And Realize That He's A Human Being, Then They Will Realize That He Is Just As Capable And Has The Right To Do Anything That Any Other Human Being On This Earth Has A Right To Do To Defend Himself.

And Just Because You Have Colleges And Universities Doesn't Mean You Have Education.

We Need More Light About Each Other. Light Creates Understanding, Understanding Creates Love, Love Creates Patience, And Patience Creates Unity.

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

The White Race Is Doomed Not Because It's White But Because Of Its Misdeeds.

I Feel Like A Man Who Has Been Asleep Somewhat And Under Someone Else's Control. I Feel That What I'm Thinking And Saying Is Now For Myself. Before It Was For And By The Guidance Of Elijah Muhammad. Now I Think With My Own Mind, Sir!

No, We Are Not Anti-white. But We Don't Have Time For The White Man. The White Man Is On Top Already, The White Man Is The Boss Already ... He Has First-class Citizenship Already. So You Are Wasting Your Time Talking To The White Man. We Are Working On Our Own People.

I Don't Know - Too Much About Robert Williams Tactics, But If He Was Trying To Defend Himself, He Was Within His God-given Rights And Within - And He Was Also Within His Natural Right, Because First Law Of Nature Is Self-preservation.

By Looking Upon Themselves As Human Beings, Their Whiteness To Them Isn't The Yardstick Of Perfection Or Honor Or Anything Else. And, Therefore, This Creates Within Them An Attitude That Is Different From The Attitude Of The White That You Meet Here In America, And It Was In Mecca That I Realized That White Is Actually An Attitude More So Than It's A Color.

I Am Not A Racist In Any Form Whatsoever. I Don't Believe In Any Form Of Discrimination Or Segregation.

America Needs To Understand Islam, Because This Is The One Religion That Erases From Its Society The Race Problem.

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

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.

Anybody Who Rapes, And Plunders, And Enslaves, And Steals, And Drops Hell Bombs On People... Anybody Who Does These Things Is Nothing But A Devil.

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.

We Have To Keep In Mind At All Times That We Are Not Fighting For Integration, Nor Are We Fighting For Separation. We Are Fighting For Recognition As Free Humans In This Society.

The Greatest Miracle Christianity Has Achieved In America Is That The Black Man In White Christian Hands Has Not Grown Violent. It Is A Miracle That Twenty-two Million Black People Have Not Risen Up Against Their Oppressors In Which They Would Have Been Justified By All Moral Criteria And Even By The Democratic Traditions.

Don't You Run Around Here Trying To Make Friends With Somebody Who's Depriving You Of Your Rights. They're Not Your Friends, No, They're Your Enemies. Treat Them Like That.

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.

When The Whites Themselves Are Attacked, They Believe In Defending Themselves And Things Of That Sort.

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

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 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.

Reform Is For People Who Have Government Connections, Revolution Is For The People!

If You Don't Stand For Something You Will Fall For Anything.

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.

In America You Have The Mouse Now Trying To Sit Down On The Elephant, Thinking That He's Going Somewhere. And It's - And It's Absurd.

God Is More Lasting Than The White Man.

Yes, I'm An Extremist. The Black Race Here In North America Is In Extremely Bad Condition. You Show Me A Black Man Who Isn't An Extremist And I'll Show You One Who Needs Psychiatric Attention.

The Black Masses Want Not To Be Shrunk From As Though They Are Plague-ridden. They Want Not To Be Walled Up In Slums, In The Ghettos, Like Animals. They Want To Live In An Open, Free Society Where They Can Walk With Their Heads Up, Like Men, And Women! Few White People Realize That Many Black People Today Dislike And Avoid Spending More Time Than They Must About White People. This 'integration' Image, As It Is Popularly Interpreted, Has Millions Of Vain, Self-exalted White People Convinced That Black People Want To Sleep In Bed With Them - And That's A Lie!

Once You Change Your Philosophy, You Change Your Thought Pattern. Once You Change Your Thought Pattern, You Change Your Attitude. Once You Change Your Attitude, It Changes Your Behavior Pattern And Then You Go On Into Some Action. As Long As You Gotta Sit-down Philosophy, You’ll Have A Sit-down Thought Pattern, And As Long As You Think That Old Sit-down Thought You’ll Be In Some Kind Of Sit-down Action.

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.

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.

How Can You Thank A Man For Giving You What's Already Yours? How Then Can You Thank Him For Giving You Only Part Of What's Already Yours?

Most People Who Work In Prison Earn Money Through Contraband.

Martin Luther King Has Taken Away From The Negro His Gov-given Right To Defend Himself.

I'm Not A Republican, Nor A Democrat, Nor An American, And Got Sense Enough To Know It.

If You Have A Dog, I Must Have A Dog. If You Have A Rifle, I Must Have A Rifle. If You Have A Club, I Must Have A Club. This Is Equality.

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.

I Saw All Races, All Colors, Blue Eyed Blonds To Black Skinned Africans In True Brotherhood! In Unity! Living As One! Worshiping As One! No Segregationists, No Liberals; They Would Not Have Known How To Interpret The Meaning Of Those Words

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

Those Who Would Hunt A Man Need To Remember That A Jungle Also Contains Those Who Hunt The Hunters.

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.

By Any Means Necessary.

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.

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.

America Is The First Country... That Can Actually Have A Bloodless Revolution.

There Has To Be Something Wrong When A Man Or A Woman Leaves His Own People And Marries Somebody Of Another Kind.

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 Black People In This Country Are Taught That Their Religion And The Best Religion Is The Religion Of Islam, And When One Accepts The Religion Of Islam, He's Known As A Muslim.

Religion Of Islam

The Black Man In America's Position Is Parallel With That Of The Jews, Especially When The Jews Were In Bondage Under Pharaoh. And At No Time Did Moses In The Bible Ever Try And Integrate The Hebrews Into The Egyptian Society Or Accept Any Hypocritical Offers Made By The Slave Master Of That Day.

The Same Thing That Uncle Tom Did On The Plantation Before [abe] Lincoln Issued The So-called Emancipation Proclamation.i Have No Thinking On The Matter. But He's Teaching The Black People To Suffer Peacefully, Patiently, Until The White Man Makes Up His Mind That You're A Human Being The Same As He.

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.

When Someone Sticks A Knife Six Inches Into Your Back, And Then Pulls It Out Two Inches And Claims He's Doing You A Favor, Don't Believe Him.

As Long As Negro Leader Is Making The White Man Think That Our People Are Satisfied To Sit In His House And Wait For Him To Correct These Conditions, He Is - He Is Misrepresenting The Thinking Of The Black Masses, And He's Doing The White Man A Disservice Because He's Making The White Man Be More Complacent Than He Would Be If He Knew The Dangerous Situation That Is Building Up Right Inside His Own House.

Dangerous Situations

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

The Black Man In North America Was Sickest Of All Politically. He Let The White Man Divide Him Into Such Foolishness As Considering Himself A Black 'democrat,' A Black 'republican,' A Black 'conservative,' Or A Black 'liberal' ...when A Ten-million Black Vote Bloc Could Be The Deciding Balance Of Power In American Politics, Because The White Man's Vote Is Almost Always Evenly Divided.

I'm Sorry To Say That The Subject I Most Disliked Was Mathematics. I Have Thought About It. I Think The Reason Was That Mathematics Leaves No Room For Argument. If You Made A Mistake, That Was All There Was To It.

It's Hard For Anyone Intelligent To Be Nonviolent. Everything In The Universe Does Something When You Start Playing With His Life, Except The American Negro. He Lays Down And Says, 'beat Me, Daddy.'

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.

It Would Be The Easiest Thing In The World For The White Man To Destroy All Black Muslims.

Every Morning When I Wake Up, Now, I Regard It As Having Another Borrowed Day.

If The White Man Can Come Here Uneducated And As An Immigrant, And Within 10 Or 15 Years Set Up An Industry That Provides Job Opportunities And Educational Opportunities For Black People, Then If The Black Man, The Black Leadership, Who Has Access To All Of This Money And Has All Of These Degrees Today, Can't Use His Talent And His Know-how To Set Up Business Opportunities, Job Opportunities, Housing Opportunities For The Black People The Same As The White Leaders Have Done For White People, Then These Black Leaders Need To Get Off The Boat.

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