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The British Empire Was So Vast And So Powerful, The Sun Would Never Set On It. This Is How Big It Was, Yet These 13 Little Scrawny States, Tired Of Taxation Without Representation, Tired Of Being Exploited And Oppressed And Degraded, Told That Big British Empire, Liberty Or Death.

-Malcolm X

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The British Empire Was So Vast And So Powerful, The Sun Would Never Set On It. This Is How Big It Was, Yet These 13 Little Scrawny States, Tired Of Taxation Without Representation, Tired Of Being Exploited And Oppressed And Degraded, Told That Big British Empire, Liberty Or Death.

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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.

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.

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There Seems In Most Countries To Be Either One Extreme Or The Other. Truly A Paradise Could Exist Wherever Material Progress And Spiritual Values Could Be Properly Balanced.

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.

You Have, You Can Only Answer It This Way: By Turning It Around. Can The Negro - Who Is The Victim Of The System - Escape The Collective Stigma That Is Placed Upon All Negroes In This Country?

The Greatest Mistake Of The Movement Has Been Trying To Organize A Sleeping People Around Specific Goals. You Have To Wake The People Up First, Then You'll Get Action.

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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?

I Go For Mao Tse-tung Much More Than, Than Nehru Because I Think That Nehru Brought His Country Up In A Beggar's Role.

Because The Average Negro Organization, Especially, Can't See The Problem In Its Entirety. They Can't Even See That The Problem Is So Big That Their Own Organization As Such, By Itself, Can Never Come To A, Can Never Come Up With A Solution.

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

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Armed With The Knowledge Of Our Past, We Can With Confidence Charter A Course For Our Future. Culture Is An Indispensable Weapon In The Freedom Struggle. We Must Take Hold Of It And Forge The Future With The Past.

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If A Dog Is Biting A Black Man, The Black Man Should Kill The Dog, Whether The Dog Is A Police Dog Or A Hound Dog Or Any Kind Of Dog. If A Dog Is Fixed On A Black Man When That Black Man Is Doing Nothing But Trying To Take Advantage Of What The Government Says Is Supposed To Be His, Then That Black Man Should Kill That Dog Or Any Two-legged Dog Who Sets The Dog On Him.

I Believe In A Religion That Believes In Freedom. Any Time I Have To Accept A Religion That Won't Let Me Fight A Battle For My People, I Say To Hell With That Religion.

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

The Thing That Has Made The So-called Negro In America Fail, More Than Any Other Thing, Is Your, My, Lack Of Knowledge Concerning History. We Know Less About History Than Anything Else.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

I Will Be Happy To Give My Life To See Some Of These White Devils Die.

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.

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.

Brothers And Sisters, Friends And Enemies: I Just Can't Believe Everyone In Here Is A Friend, And I Don't Want To Leave Anybody Out.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

Adam Clayton Powell's Entire Political Career Has To Be Looked At In The Entire Context Of The American History And The History Of, And The Position Of The Afro- American Or Negro In American History. [he] Has Done A Remarkable Job In Fighting For Rights Of Black People In This Country. On The Other Hand, He Probably Hasn't Done As Much As He Could Or As Much As He Should Because He Is The Most Independent Negro Politician In This Country.

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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.

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

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.

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 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.

I For One Believe That If You Give People A Thorough Understanding Of What Confronts Them And The Basic Causes That Produce It, They'll Create Their Own Program, And When The People Create A Program, You Get Action.

Thorough Understanding

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

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

Better Jobs And Housing Are Only Temporary Solutions. They Are Aspects Of Tokenism And Don't Go To The Heart Of The Problem.

You Don't Integrate With A Sinking Ship.

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.

Anything I Do Today, I Regard As Urgent.

In Order, In Order To Enforce You Can't Force People To Act Right Toward Each Other. You Can't Force, You Cannot Legislate Heart, Conditions And Attitudes.

I Must Say This Concerning The Great Controversy Over Rifles And Shotguns. The Only Thing I've Ever Said Is That In Areas Where The Government Has Proven Itself Either Unwilling Or Unable To Defend The Lives And The Property Of Negroes, It's Time For Negroes To Defend Themselves. Article Number Two Of The Constitutional Amendments Provides You And Me The Right To Own A Rifle Or A Shotgun. It Is Constitutionally Legal To Own A Shotgun Or A Rifle.

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

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

You Can't Separate Peace From Freedom Because No One Can Be At Peace Unless He Has His Freedom.

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

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.

Revolution Is Always Based On Land. Revolution Is Never Based On Begging Somebody For An Integrated Cup Of Coffee.

I Think That If Essien Udom Had Something He Didn't Take It Back Far Enough In History To Get At The Proper Understanding Of It.

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

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

We Are Fighting For The Right To Live As Free Humans In This Society. In Fact, We Are Actually Fighting For Rights That Are Even Greater Than Civil Rights And That Is Human Rights.

The Mother Is The First Teacher Of The Child. The Message She Gives That Child, That Child Gives To The World.

When The Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbor, The United States Struck Back. She Didn't Go And Bomb - She Bombed Any Part Of Japan. She Dropped The Bomb On Hiroshima. Those People In Hiroshima Probably Hadn't Even, Some Of Them; Most Of Them Hadn't Even Killed Anybody.

All Over This World People Are Standing Up For Freedom.

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.

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

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

The Problem Facing Our People Here In America Is Bigger Than All Other Personal Or Organizational Differences. Therefore, As Leaders, We Must Stop Worrying About The Threat That We Seem To Think We Pose To Each Other's Personal Prestige, And Concentrate Our United Efforts Toward Solving The Unending Hurt That Is Being Done Daily To Our People Here In America.

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.

Integration Will Not Bring A Man Back From The Grave.

Since I Learned The Truth In Mecca, My Dearest Friends Have Come To Include All Kinds - Some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Agnostics, And Even Atheists! I Have Friends Who Are Called Capitalists, Socialists, And Communists! Some Of My Friends Are Moderates, Conservatives, Extremists - Some Are Even Uncle Toms! My Friends Today Are Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, And White!

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

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

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

The Religion Of Islam Brings Out Of The Individual All Of His Dormant Potential.

Religion Of Islam

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

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.

Sacrificing Everything

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

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

The Only Persons Who Really Changed History Are Those Who Changed Men's Thinking About Themselves.

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

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

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

I 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.

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.

Revolution Is Based On Land. Land Is The Basis Of All Independence. Land Is The Basis Of Freedom, Justice, And Equality.

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

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.

If The Government Can't Get The Black Man Justice, Then It's Time For The Black Man To Get Some Justice For Himself.

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.

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.

They Attack The Victim, And Then The Criminal Who Attacked The Victim Accuses The Victim Of Attacking Him. This Is American Justice. This Is American Democracy And Those Of You Who Are Familiar With It Know That In America Democracy Is Hypocrisy. Now, If I’m Wrong, Put Me In Jail; But If You Can’t Prove That Democracy Is Not Hypocrisy, Then Don’t Put Your Hands On Me.

[white Men] Has The Audacity To Call Himself Even The "leader Of The Free World" While He Has A Country That Can't Even Give The Basic Human Rights To Over Twenty-two Million Of Its Citizens. This Is Aud-, This Is, This Takes Audacity; This Takes Nerve. So It Is This Attitude Today That's Causing The Americans To Be Condemned.

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

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

Jews Who Have Been Guilty Of Exploiting The Black People In America, Economically, Civically, And Otherwise, Hide Behind - Hide Their Guilt By Accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Of Being Anti-semitic, Simply Because He Teaches Our People To Go Into Business For Ourselves And Take Over The Economic Leadership In Our Own Community.

I Went To A White School Over Here In Mason, Michigan. The White Man Made The Mistake Of Letting Me Read His History Books. He Made The Mistake Of Teaching Me That Patrick Henry Was A Patriot And George Washington - Wasn't Nothing Non-violent About Old Pat Or George Washington.

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

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

Religion Of Islam

You Can’t Hate The Roots Of The Tree Without Ending Up Hating The Tree. You Can’t Hate Your Origin Without Ending Up Hating Yourself. You Can’t Hate The Land, Your Motherland, The Place That You Come From, And We Can’t Hate Africa Without Ending Up Hating Ourselves. The Black Man In The Western Hemisphere—north America, Central America, South America, And In The Caribbean—is The Best Example Of How One Can Be Made, Skillfully, To Hate Himself That You Can Find Anywhere On This Earth.

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

Asking Questions

I Believe In Islam. I Am A Muslim And There Is Nothing Wrong With Being A Muslim, Nothing Wrong With The Religion Of Islam. It Just Teaches Us To Believe In Allah As The God.

Religion Of Islam

The Problem Of The Negro Is So Criminal That Many Individuals And Organizations Are Going To Have To Sacrifice What They Call Their Organizational Principles If Someone Comes Up With A Solution That Will Really Solve The Problem.

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.

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

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.

I Have Been Blessed To Visit The Holy City Of Mecca.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Hating Yourself

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.

I Think That Nehru Probably Was A Good Man, Although I Didn't Go For It. I Don't Go For Anybody Who Is Passive. I Don't Go For Anybody Who Advocates Passivism Or Peaceful Suffering In Any Form Whatsoever. I Don't Go For It.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

After Hitler Was Destroyed, There Was The Threat Of Stalin, But It Was Always The World Pressure That Was Upon America That Enabled Black People To Go Forward. It Was Not The Initiative Internally That The Negro Put Forth In America, Nor Was It A Change Of Moral Heart On The Part Of Uncle Sam It Was World Pressure.

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

The British Empire Was So Vast And So Powerful, The Sun Would Never Set On It. This Is How Big It Was, Yet These 13 Little Scrawny States, Tired Of Taxation Without Representation, Tired Of Being Exploited And Oppressed And Degraded, Told That Big British Empire, Liberty Or Death.

Thoughtful White People Know They Are Inferior To Black People.

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.

Its The Hinge That Squeaks That Gets The Grease

It Isn't The American White Man Who Is A Racist, But It's The American Political, Economic And Social Atmosphere That Automatically Nourishes A Racist Psychology In The White Man.

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

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.

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