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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.

-Malcolm X

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Just As Uncle Tom,

Malcolm X

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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.

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The Government Is Responsible For What Is Happening To Black People In America.

I Am Not An American; I Am One Of Twenty-two Million Black People Who Are Victims Of Americanism.

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

We, The Black Masses, Don't Want These Leaders Who Seek Our Support Coming To Us Representing A Certain Political Party. They Must Come To Us Today As Black Leaders Representing The Welfare Of Black People. We Won't Follow Any Leader Today Who Comes On The Basis Of Political Party. Both Parties (democrat And Republican) Are Controlled By The Same People Who Have Abused Our Rights, And Who Have Deceived Us With False Promises Every Time An Election Rolls Around.

So Over You Is The Greatest Enemy A Man Can Have — And That Is Fear. I Know Some Of You Are Afraid To Listen To The Truth — You Have Been Raised On Fear And Lies. But I Am Going To Preach To You The Truth Until You Are Free Of That Fear...

And In The Racial Climate Of This Country Today, It Is Anybody's Guess Which Of The 'extremes' In Approach To The Black Man's Problems Might Personally Meet A Fatal Catastrophe First - 'non-violent' Dr. King, Or So-called 'violent' Me.

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

I Had Begun To Read Books And Things And, In Fact, One Of The Persons Who Started Me Thinking Seriously Was An Atheist That I, Another Negro Inmate Whom I'd Heard In A Discussion With White Inmates And Who Was Able To Hold His Own At All Levels. And He Impressed Me With His Knowledge, And I Began To Listen Very Carefully To Some Of The Things He Said.

Stumbling Isn't Falling.

For The White Man To Ask The Black Man If He Hates Him Is Just Like The Rapist Asking The Raped, Or The Wolf Asking The Sheep, 'do You Hate Me?' The White Man Is In No Moral Position To Accuse Anyone Else Of Hate! Why, When All Of My Ancestors Are Snake-bitten, And I'm Snake-bitten, And I Warn My Children To Avoid Snakes, What Does That Snake Sound Like Accusing Me Of Hate-teaching?

The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Make Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[at A Young Age] I Had Learned Enough About Women To Know Not To Pressure Them When They're Thinking Something Out; They'll Tell You When They're Ready.

Never Allow Your Enemies To Educate Your Children.

Power In Defense Of Freedom Is Greater Than Power In Behalf Of Tyranny And Oppression, Because Power, Real Power, Comes From Our Conviction Which Produces Action, Uncompromising Action.

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!

If Violence Is Wrong In America, Violence Is Wrong Abroad. If It Is Wrong To Be Violent Defending Black Women And Black Children And Black Babies And Black Men, Then It Is Wrong For America To Draft Us And Make Us Violent Abroad In Defense Of Her. And If It Is Right For America To Draft Us, And Teach Us How To Be Violent In Defense Of Her, Then It Is Right For You And Me To Do Whatever Is Necessary To Defend Our Own People Right Here In This Country.

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.

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.

It'll Be The Ballot Or The Bullet. It'll Be Liberty Or It'll Be Death

You Don't Have To Be A Man To Fight For Freedom. All You Have To Do Is To Be An Intelligent Human Being.

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

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.

Many Of Them Who Belong To These Countries That Were Former Colonial Powers Have Racist Attitudes, But Their Racist Attitude Is Never Displayed To The Degree That The America's Attitude Of Racism Is Displayed. Never.

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.

When The Muslims Deliver The Indictment Of The American System, It Is Not The White Man Per Se That Is Being Doomed.

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

The Press Is So Powerful In Its Image-making Role, It Can Make The Criminal Look Like He's A The Victim And Make The Victim Look Like He's The Criminal. This Is The Press, An Irresponsible Press. It Will Make The Criminal Look Like He's The Victim And Make The Victim Look Like He's The Criminal. If You Aren't Careful, The Newspapers Will Have You Hating The People Who Are Being Oppressed And Loving The People Who Are Doing The Oppressing.

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!

If I Go Home And Someone, And My Child Has Blood Running Down Her Leg And Someone Tells Me That A Snake Bit Her, I'm Going Out And Kill The Snake. And When I Find The Snake, I'm Not Going To Look And See If He Has Blood On His Jaws.

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.

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I'm A Field Negro. The Masses Are The Field Negroes. When They See This Man's House On Fire, You Don't Hear These Little Negroes Talking About 'our Government Is In Trouble'. They Say, 'the Government Is In Trouble.'

I Asked Inmate In New York, Warden Fay At That Time If, If It Didn't Make A Better Inmate Out Of The Negroes Who Accepted It And He Said, "yes." So I Asked Him Then What Was It About It That He Considered To Be So Danger, And He, Dangerous, And He Pointed Out That It Was The Cohesiveness That It Produced Among The Inmates. They Stuck Together.

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

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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.

When I'm Born I'm Black, When I Grow Up I'm Black, When I'm In The Sun I'm Black, When I'm Sick I'm Black, When I Die I'm Black, And You...when You're Born You're Pink, When You Grow Up You're White, When You're Cold You're Blue, When You're Sick You're Green, When You Die You're Grey And You Dare Call Me Coloured.

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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."

Soon Now, As The Negro Awakens A Little More And Sees The Vise That He's In, Sees The Bag That He's In, Sees The Real Game That He's In, Then The Negro's Going To Develop A New Tactic.

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

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.

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.

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

In My 39 Years On This Earth, The Holy City Of Makka Had Been The First Time I Had Ever Stood Before The Creator Of All And Felt Like A Complete Human Being

We Are About To Have A Racial Explosion.

The Man Was A Deceiver. He Was Deceitful And I Will Never Bite My Tongue In Saying That. I Don't Think He Was Anything But A Politician, And He Used Negroes To Get Elected And To Get Votes.

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

It Is Not A Case Of Our People...wanting Either Separation Or Integration. The Use Of These Words Actually Clouds The Real Picture. The 22 Million Afro-americans Don't Seek Either Separation Or Integration. They Seek Recognition And Respect As Human Beings.

Why Should [uncle Sam] Send 20 Billion Dollars Down There [south America], Which Is Going To Go Down The Drain Every Time You Have A Racial In - Incident In This Country?

[islam] Is Not Measured By The Color Of His Skin.

We're Not Americans, We're Africans Who Happen To Be In America. We Were Kidnapped And Brought Here Against Our Will From Africa. We Didn't Land On Plymouth Rock - That Rock Landed On Us.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That If The - What Should Happen Is The Black Man Himself Should Learn How To Develop Himself, In The Same Sense That The White Man Has Developed Himself. Then They Can Both Come Together And Recognize Each Other As Equals.

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

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

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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.

It's Almost Impossible To Separate The Actions, Or It's Also, It's Almost Impossible To Separate The Oppression And Exploitation, Criminal Oppression And Criminal Exploitation Of The American Negro From The Color Of The Skin Of The Person Who Is The Oppressor Or The Exploiter.

All Over This World People Are Standing Up For Freedom.

Look At Yourselves. Some Of You Teenagers, Students. How Do You Think I Feel And I Belong To A Generation Ahead Of You - How Do You Think I Feel To Have To Tell You, 'we, My Generation, Sat Around Like A Knot On A Wall While The Whole World Was Fighting For Its Hum An Rights - And You've Got To Be Born Into A Society Where You Still Have That Same Fight.' What Did We Do, Who Preceded You ? I'll Tell You What We Did. Nothing. And Don't You Make The Same Mistake We Made.

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

Religion Of Islam

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

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.

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.

Speaking Like This Doesn't Mean That We're Anti-white, But It Does Mean We're Anti-exploitation, We're Anti-degradation, We're Anti-oppression.

Once I Was, Yes. But Now I Have Turned My Direction Away From Anything That's Racist.

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

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

They Asked If I Knew What 'conscientious Objector' Meant. I Told Them That When The White Man Asked Me To Go Off Somewhere And Fight And Maybe Die To Preserve The Way The White Man Treated The Black Man In America, Then My Conscience Made Me Object.

People Involved In A Revolution Don't Become Part Of The System; They Destroy The System... The Negro Revolution Is No Revolution Because It Condemns The System And Then Asks The System It Has Condemned To Accept Them.

We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

I Mean A Real Police State Just To Get A Token Recognition Of A Law. It Take, It Took, I Think, 15,000 Troops And 6 Million Dollars To Put One Negro In The University Of Mississippi. That's A Police Action, Police State Action.

One Thing That The White Man Can Never Give The Black Man Is Self Respect. The Black Man In The Ghettos, Have To Start Self Correcting His Own Material Moral, And Spiritual Defects, And Evil. The Black Man Need To Start His Own Program To Get Rid Of Drunkenness, Drug Addiction And Prostitution. The Black Man In America Has To Lift Up His Own Sense Of Values.

We Don't Think That We're Begging For Anything. We Think We're Demanding What Is Ours By Right.

I Think, Again, That That Does The Whole Problem A, A Disservice. It's Not A Case Of Our Wanting To Mix Socially With Whites. And When You - And The Whites Are Right In The South When They Say That Getting A Cup Of Coffee In A Restaurant Is Not Going To Solve - Is All Right.

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.

A Wise Man Can Play The Part Of A Clown, But A Clown Can't Play The Part Of A Wise Man.

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.

The Only Thing Power Respects, Is Power.

Who Taught You To Hate The Color Of Your Skin? Who Taught You To Hate The Texture Of Your Hair? Who Taught You To Hate The Shape Of Your Nose And The Shape Of Your Lips? Who Taught You To Hate Yourself From The Top Of Your Head To The Soles Of Your Feet?

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

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

For One To Control One's Thoughts And Feelings Means One Can Actually Control One's Atmosphere And All Who Walk Into Its Sphere Of Influence.

Despite My Firm Convictions, I Have Always Been A Man Who Tries To Face Facts, And To Accept The Reality Of Life As New Experience And New Knowledge Unfolds. I Have Always Kept An Open Mind, A Flexibility That Must Go Hand In Hand With Every Form Of The Intelligent Search For Truth.

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.

[civil Right Leaders]themselves In Their Pronouncements Will Tell You They Need White Allies, They Need White Help, They Need White This.

How Can Anyone Be Against Love?

The Only Possible Way Out For The White Man Is To Give Us Negroes Some Land Of Our Own; Let Us Get Out, Get Away From His Wicked Reign And Go For Ourselves.

Of All Our Studies, History Is Best Qualified To Reward Our Research. And When You See That You've Got Problems, All You Have To Do Is Examine The Historic Method Used All Over The World By Others Who Have Problems Similar To Yours. And Once You See How They Got Theirs Straight, Then You Know How You Can Get Yours Straight.

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.

When 'i' Replaced With 'we', Even The Illness Becomes Wellness.

Hatred And Anger Are Powerless When Met With Kindness.

Moses Tried To Separate His People From Pharaoh, And When He Tried, The Magicians Tried To Fool The People Into Staying With The Pharaoh, And We Look Upon These Other Organizations That Are Trying To Get Negroes To Integrate With This Doomed White Man As Nothing But Modern-day Magicians, And The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is A Modern-day Moses Trying To Separate Us From The Modern-day Pharaoh.

Any Time You Find The Government Involved In A Conspiracy To Violate The Citizenship Or The Civil Rights Of A People, Then You Are Wasting Your Time Going To That Government Expecting Redress. Instead, You Have To Take That Government To The World Court And Accuse It Of Genocide And All Of The Other Crimes That It Is Guilty Of Today.

Any Time You Put Too Many Sparks Around A Powder Keg, The Thing Is Going To Explode, And If The Things That Explodes Is Still Inside The House, Then The House Will Be Destroyed.

On The Iberian Peninsula In The Spanish-portuguese Area, Southern France That High State Of A Culture Existed There Because Of Africans Known As Moors Had Come There And Brought It There.

A Revolution Is Bloody. Revolution Is Hostile. Revolution Knows No Compromise. Revolution Overturns And Destroys Everything That Gets In Its Way.

Like Samson, I Am Ready To Pull Down The White Man's Temple, Knowing Full Well That I Will Be Destroyed By The Falling Rubble.

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

The Zionist Argument To Justify Israel's Present Occupation Of Arab Palestine Has No Intelligent Or Legal Basis In History.

In My Opinion, Mature Political Action Is The Type Of Action That That Involves A Program Of Re-education And Information That Will Enable The Black People In The Black Community To See The Fruits That They Should Be Receiving From The Politicians Who Are Over Them And, Thereby, They Are Then Able To Determine Whether Or Not The Politician Is Really Fulfilling His Function.

The Day That The Black Man Takes An Uncompromising Step And Realizes That He's Within His Rights, When His Own Freedom Is Being Jeopardized, To Use Any Means Necessary To Bring About His Freedom Or Put A Halt To That Injustice, I Don't Think He'll Be By Himself.

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.

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

Essien Udom Is A Nigerian. At Present He's A Professor At Ibadan University.

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 Believe In Recognizing Every Human Being As A Human Being--neither White, Black, Brown, Or Red; And When You Are Dealing With Humanity As A Family There's No Question Of Integration Or Intermarriage. It's Just One Human Being Marrying Another Human Being Or One Human Being Living Around And With Another Human Being.

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.

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.

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.

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 And His Conscious Behavior. And It Teaches Me To Be For The Rights Of All Human Beings, But Especially The Afro-american Human Being, Because My Religion Is A Natural Religion, And The First Law Of Nature Is Self-preservation.

It's Got To Be The Ballot Or The Bullet. The Ballot Or The Bullet. If You're Afraid To Use An Expression Like That, You Should Get Back In The Cotton Patch, You Should Get Back In The Alley.

Mankind's History Has Proved From One Era To Another That The True Criterion Of Leadership Is Spiritual. Men Are Attracted By Spirit. By Power, Men Are Forced. Love Is Engendered By Spirit. By Power Anxieties Are Created.

I Am A Muslim, Because It's A Religion That Teaches You An Eye For An Eye And A Tooth For A Tooth. It Teaches You To Respect Everybody, And Treat Everybody Right. But It Also Teaches You If Someone Steps On Your Toe, Chop Off Their Foot. And I Carry My Religious Axe With Me All The Time.

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

To The Same Degree That Your Understanding Of And Attitude Toward Afrika Become Positive, You'll Find That Your Understanding Of And Your Attitude Toward Yourself Will Also Become Positive.

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!

Renaissance Or The Reawakening Of Europe. And, And This Reawakening Actually Involved An Era During Which The People Of Europe, Who Were Coming Out Of The Dark Ages, Were Then Adopting The Value System Of The People In The East, In The, Of The Oriental Society.

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

What You And I Need To Do Is Learn To Forget Our Differences. When We Come Together, We Don't Come Together As Baptists Or Methodists. You Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're A Baptist, And You Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're A Methodist... You Don't Catch Hell Because You're A Democrat Or A Republican. You Don't Catch Hell Because You're A Mason Or An Elk. And You Sure Don't Catch Hell 'cause You're An American; 'cause If You Was An American, You Wouldn't Catch No Hell. You Catch Hell 'cause You're A Black Man. You Catch Hell, All Of Us Catch Hell, For The Same Reason.

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.

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

Asking Questions

Education Is An Important Element In The Struggle For Human Rights. It Is The Means To Help Our Children And Thereby Increase Self-respect. Education Is Our Passport To The Future, For Tomorrow Belongs To The People Who Prepare For It Today.

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

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You're Living At A Time Of Extremism, A Time Of Revolution A Time Where There's Got To Be A Change. People In Power Have Misused It And Now There Has To Be A Change And A Better World Has To Be Built And The Only Way Is Going To Be Built Is With Extreme Methods And I For One Will Join With Anyone, Don't Care What Color You Are As Long As You Want Change This Miserable Condition That Exists On This Earth

You Don't Have A Peaceful Revolution. You Don't Have A Turn-the-cheek Revolution. There's No Such Thing As A Nonviolent Revolution.

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.

The Number One Thing That Has To Be Done, [black Men] Has To Be Retaught, Be Given - He Has To Be Reeducated And Made To Know That He's A Man, Like Anyone Else, And Then He Can Stand On His Own Two Feet, Like Others Have Done.

Any Form Of Integration, Forced Integration, Any - Any - Any Effort To Force Integration Upon Whites Is Actually Hypocritical.

That's Not A Chip On My Shoulder, That's Your Foot On My Neck.

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

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True Islam Taught Me That It Takes All Of The Religious, Political, Economic, Psychological, And Racial Ingredients, Or Characteristics, To Make The Human Family And The Human Society Complete.

Anytime There's A Fire In A Negro Community And It's Burning Out Of Control, You Send Any One Of Them, Send Whitney Young In To Put It Out.

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.

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.

The White Man Is Too Intelligent To Let Someone Else Come And Gain Control Of The Economy Of His Community. But You Will Let Anyone Come In And Take Control Of The Economy Of Your Community, Control The Housing, Control The Education, Control The Jobs, Control The Businesses, Under The Pre-text That You Want To Integrate. No, You Outta Your Mind.

If Christianity Had Asserted Itself In Germany, Six Million Jews Would Have Lived.

I Don't Encourage Any Act Of Murder Nor Do I Glorify In Anybody's Death, But I Do Think That When The White Public Uses Its Press To Magnify The Fact That There Are The Lives Of White Hostages At Stake, They Don't Say "hostages," Every Paper Says "white Hostages." They Give Me The Impression That They Attach More Importance To A White Hostage And A White Death, Than They Do The Death Of A Human Being, Despite The Color Of His Skin.

I Don't Even Call It Violence When It's In Self Defense; I Call It Intelligence.

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.

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

The White Man Pays Reverend Martin Luther King So That Martin Luther King Can Keep The Negro Defenseless.

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.

History Is Not Hatred.

You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism.

Integration Will Not Bring A Man Back From The Grave.

Sometimes You Have To Pick The Gun Up To Put The Gun Down.

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.

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.

One Day, May We All Meet Together In The Light Of Understanding.

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 .

Reverend Galamison Is Fighting A Hard Battle Against Great Opposition, And I Admire A Man Who Fights A Hard Battle Against Great Opposition.

I Think It's Possible For Me To Approach The Whole Problem With A Broader Scope.when You Look At Something Through An, An Organizational Eye, Whether It's A, A Religious Organization, Political Organization, Or A Civic Organization, If You Look At It Only Through The Eye Of That Organization, You See What The Organization Wants You To See. But You Lose Your Ability To Be Objective.

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

Well, My Contention Is That The Political System Of This Country Is So Designed Criminally To Prevent This, That If The Black Man Even Started In That Direction, Which Is A Mature Step And It's The Only Way To Really Solve This Problem And To Prove That He Is The Intellectual Equal Of Others, Why, The Racists And The Segregationists Would Fight That Harder Than They're Fighting The Present Efforts To Integrate.

Not A Physical Migration, But A Cultural, Psychological, Philosophical Migration Back To Africa, Which Means The Restoring Our Common Bond Will Give Us The Spiritual Strength And The Incentive To Strengthen Our Political And Social And Economic Position Right Here In America, And To Fight For The Things That Are Ours By Right Here On This Continent.

Racism Is A Human Problem And A Crime That Is Absolutely So Ghastly That A Person Who Is Fighting Racism Is Well Within His Rights To Fight Against It By Any Means Necessary Until It Is Eliminated.

America's Greatest Crime Against The Black Man Was Not Slavery Or Lynching, But That He Was Taught To Wear A Mask Of Self-hate And Self-doubt.

We Reject Segregation Even More Militantly Than You Say You Do! We Want Separation, Which Is Not The Same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us That Segregation Is When Your Life And Liberty Are Controlled, Regulated, By Someone Else. To Segregate Means To Control. Segregation Is That Which Is Forced Upon Inferiors By Superiors. But Separation Is That Which Is Done Voluntarily, By Two Equals - For The Good Of Both!

History Rewards All Research. And History Fails To Record One Single Instance In Which The White Man - As A People - Did Good. They Have Always Been Devils; They Always Will Be Devils, And They Are About To Be Destroyed. The Final Proof That They Are Devils Lies In The Fact That They Are About To Destroy Themselves. Only A Devil - And A Stupid Devil At That - Would Destroy Himself!

The Religious Philosophy That They Had Adopted, In My Opinion, Was The Only Thing And Is The Only Thing That Can Remove The White From The Mind Of The White Man And The Negro From The Mind Of The Negro. I Have Seen What Islam Has Done With Our People, Our People Who Had This Feeling Of Negro - And It Had A Psychological Effect Of Putting Them In A Mental Prison.

Where The Really Sincere White People Have Got To Do Their 'proving' Of Themselves Is Not Among The Black Victims, But Out On The Battle Lines Of Where America's Racism Really Is - And That's In Their Own Home Communities.

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Hating Yourself

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

I Do Not Pretend To Be A Divine Man, But I Do Believe In Divine Guidance, Divine Power, And In The Fulfillment Of Divine Prophecy. I Am Not Educated, Nor Am I An Expert In Any Particular Field But I Am Sincere, And My Sincerity Is My Credentials.

Divine Guidance

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.

Just As Plagues Were Visited On Pharaoh So Will Pestilences And Disasters Be Visited On The White Man. Why, It Has Already Started: God Has Begun To Send Them Heat When They Expect Cold; He Sends Them Cold When They Expect Heat. Their Crops Are Dying, Their Children Are Being Born With All Kinds Of Deformities, The Rivers And Lakes Are Coming Out Of The Belly Of The Earth To Wash Them Away.

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.

American Civil Rights Leader, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? Lynching Is A Murder. For The Past Four Hundred Years Our People Have Been Lynched Physically, But Now It's Done Politically. We're Lynched Politically, We're Lynched Economically, We're Lynched Socially, We're Lynched In Every Way That You Can Imagine.

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.

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.

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.

Revolutions Are Never Peaceful.

There Was No Racism; There Was No Problem [in Mecca].

Our Success In America Will Involve Two Circles: Black Nationalism And Islam–it Will Take Bn [black Nationalism] To Make Our People Conscious Of Doing For Self & Then Islam Will Provide The Spiritual Guidance. Bn [black Nationalism] Will Link Us To Africa And Islam Will Link Us Spiritually To Africa, Arabia & Asia.

What Mr. Muhammad Says Is, They Should Take Their Navy And Their - Merchant Fleet And Ship Us Back Where They Got Us.and That's Not Deportation, That's - Returning Stolen Property To Its Proper Owner.now, Since The Government Doesn't Want To Do That, Then They - And They Have Already Proven That They Can't Bring About Peaceful Relations On An Integrated Basis In This Country, Give Us Some Separate Territory In This Country Where Our People Can Go And Do Something For Ourselves. And Provide Us With Everything That We Need To Keep That New Territory Going, Until We Are Self-sufficient.

They're Not Leading Our People Toward Any Kind Of Independence, But They're Using Their Positions And Their Education And Their Talent To Exploit Our People Worse Than The Slave Master Did During Slavery.

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

The Government Is Responsible For The Violence, As Long As They Don't Stop It. And If We Have To Get Violent To Protect Ourselves, Then It's The Government That Should Be Charged With The Crime, Because We're Only Upholding A Law That They've Been Unable To Uphold.

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

The Black Man Will Inherit The Earth; He Will Resume Control, Taking Back The Position He Held Centuries Ago When The White Devil Was Crawling Around The Caves Of Europe On His All Fours. Before The White Devil Came Into Our Lives We Had A Civilization, We Had A Culture, We Were Living In Silks And Satins. Then He Put Us In Chains And Put Us Aboard The "good Ship Jesus," And We Have Lived In Hell Ever Since.

When You Hear Me Say "by Any Means Necessary," I Mean Exactly That. I Believe In Anything That Is Necessary To Correct Unjust Conditions-political, Economic, Social, Physical, Anything That Is Necessary.

Time Is On The Side Of The Oppressed Today, It's Against The Oppressor. Truth Is On The Side Of The Oppressed Today, It's Against The Oppressor. You Don't Need Anything Else.

The Only Way We'll Get Freedom For Ourselves Is To Identify Ourselves With Every Oppressed People In The World. We Are Blood Brothers To The People Of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- Yes Cuba Too.

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.

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

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

If You Are In A Country That Is Progressive, The Woman Is Progressive. If You're In A Country That Reflects The Consciousness Toward The Importance Of Education, It's Because The Woman Is Aware Of The Importance Of Education. But In Every Backward Country You'll Find The Women Are Backward, And In Every Country Where Education Is Not Stressed Its Because The Women Don't Have Education.

I Don't Think That The Objective Of The American Negro Is White Middle-class Values Because What Are White Middle-class Values?

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

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