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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.

-Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

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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.

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

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

Abraham Lincoln Was Interested In, In Saving The Union. Well, Most Negroes Have Been Tricked Into Thinking That Lincoln Was A Negro Lover Whose Primary Aim Was To Free Them, And He Died Because He Freed Them.

A Revolution Is Bloody, But America Is In A Unique Position. She's The Only Country In History In A Position Actually To Become Involved In A Bloodless Revolution. The Russian Revolution Was Bloody, Chinese Revolution Was Bloody, French Revolution Was Bloody, Cuban Revolution Was Bloody, And There Was Nothing More Bloody Then The American Revolution. But Today This Country Can Become Involved In A Revolution That Won't Take Bloodshed. All She's Got To Do Is Give The Black Man In This Country Everything That's Due Him, Everything.

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.

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.

Any Time A Negro Community Lives Under Fear That Its Churches Are Going To Be Bombed, Then They Have To Realize They're Living In A War Zone.

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.

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

And What Makes The Whites Who Have These Middle-class Values Have Those Values? Where Did They Get It? They Didn't Have These Same Values Four Hundred Years, Five Hundred Years Ago.

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.

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.

If I Did See A White Man Who Was Willing To Go To Jail Or Throw Himself In Front Of A Car In Behalf Of The So-called "negro Cause," The Test That I'd Put To Him, I'd Ask Him, "do You Think Negro, When Negroes Are Being Attacked They Should Defend Themselves Even At The Risk Of Having To Kill The One Who's Attacking Them?" If That White Man Told Me, "yes," I'd Shake His Hand.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Any Way, Any Form Necessary To Defend Himself; Negro Should Reserve The Right To Do That Just The Same As Others Have The Right To Do It.

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

Sitting At The Table Doesn’t Make You A Diner, Unless You Eat Some Of What’s On That Plate. Being Here In America Doesn’t Make You An American. Being Born Here In America Doesn’t Make You An American.

You Have To Be Very Careful Introducing The Truth To The Black Man, Who Has Never Previously Heard The Truth About Himself. The Black Brother Is So Brainwashed That He May Reject The Truth When He First Hears It. You Have To Drop A Little Bit On Him At A Time, And Wait A While To Let That Sink In Before Advancing To The Next Step

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

I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells It. I'm For Justice, No Matter Who It's For Or Against.

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.

I Could Turn Around As Wyatt Walker Said To Me About, Not You Personally, But About The Whole Black Muslim Movement. That If You Go Outside Of New York City, Dr. [martin Luther] King Is Known To 90 Percent Of The Negroes In The United States And Is Respected And, And Is Identified More Or Less With Him, At Least As A Hero Of One Kind Or Another. That The Black Muslim, Outside Of One Or Two Communities Like New York, Are Unknown.

They Don't Stand For Anything Different In South Africa Than America Stands For. The Only Difference Is Over There They Preach As Well As Practice Apartheid. America Preaches Freedom And Practices Slavery.

White Is An Attitude.

The Only Difference Between [america] And South Africa, South Africa Preaches Separation And Practices Separation, America Preaches Integration And Practices Segregation. This Is The Only Difference, They Don't Practice What They Preach, Whereas South Africa Practices And Preaches The Same Thing.

If We Are Extremists, Then We Are Not Ashamed Of It, For The Conditions That Our People Suffer Are Extreme, And Extreme Illness Can Not Be Cured With Moderate Medicine

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.

When I Was In Mecca I Noticed That Their, They Had No Color Problem. That They Had People There Whose Eyes Were Blue And People There Whose Eyes Were Black, People Whose Skin Was White, People Whose Skin Was Black, People Whose Hair Was Blond, People Whose Hair Was Black, From The Whitest White Person To The Blackest Black Person.

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

Uncle Sam Is Forcing Integration Only Because He's Trying To Impress The People Of - Abroad That He's Morally Qualified To Be The Leader Of The World.

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.

Growing Is The Result Of Learning.

Don't Be In A Hurry To Condemn Because He Doesn't Do What You Do Or Think As You Think Or As Fast. There Was A Time When You Didn't Know What You Know Today.

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.

We Assert That In Those Areas Where The Government Is Either Unable Or Unwilling To Protect The Lives And Property Of Our People, That Our Peopie Are Within Our Rights To Protect Themselves By Whatever Means Necessary.

Today's Uncle Tom Doesn't Wear A Handkerchief On His Head. This Modern, Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Now Often Wears A Top Hat. He's Usually Well-dressed And Well-educated. He's Often The Personification Of Culture And Refinement. The Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Sometimes Speaks With A Yale Or Harvard Accent. Sometimes He Is Known As Professor, Doctor, Judge, And Reverend, Even Right Reverend Doctor. This Twentieth-century Uncle Thomas Is A Professional Negro -by That I Mean His Profession Is Being A Negro For The White Man.

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

Asking Questions

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.

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.

Since Western Society Is Deteriorating, It Has Become Overrun With Immorality, And God Is Going To Judge It, And Destroy It. And The Only Way The Black People Caught Up In This Society Can Be Saved Is Not To Integrate Into This Corrupt Society, But To Separate From It, To A Land Of Our Own, Where We Can Reform Ourselves, Lift Up Our Moral Standards And Try To Be Godly.

The American System Itself Is Incapable. It Is As Incapable Of Producing Freedom For The Afro-american As The System Of A Chicken Is Of Producing A Duck Egg.

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.'

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.

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

Anytime You Tell A Man To Turn The Other Cheek Or To Be Nonviolent In The Face Of A Violent Enemy, You're Making That Man Defenseless. You're Robbing Him Of His God-given Right To Defend Himself.

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.

10 Years Ago The Black Man Knew What His Condition Was. And Today, Because Of The World Revolution That's Taking Place All Over This Earth, The Black Man Would Be Fighting For What He Knows Is His By Right, But The Movement On The Part Of [martin Luther] King And The Others Had Done Nothing But Slow Down The Militancy That Is Inherent In The Nature Of The Black Man.

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.

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

I Used The Word 'negro' And I Was Firmly Corrected

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.

I Think Teaching A Man To Hate Himself Is Much More Criminal Than Teaching A Man To Hate Someone Else.

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.

Of All Our Studies, It Is History That Is Best Qualified To Reward Our Research.

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

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

It Has Always Been My Belief That I, Too, Will Die By Violence. I Have Done All That I Can To Be Prepared.

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.

Ralph Bunche, Who Is An Internationally Recognized And Respected Diplomat, Can't Stay In A Hotel In Georgia, Which Means That No Matter What The Accomplishment, The Intellectual, The Academic, Or Professional Level Of A Negro Is, Collectively He Stands Condemned.

But They Don't Use Law-they Use Law For Their Interests. They Don't Go By Law, International, Federal, Local-nothing! They Go By Whatever Is Expedient To Protect The Interests That Are At Stake.

Wyatt [ Walker] Doesn't Say That As Much As Whitney Young Does.

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

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. Those Of You Who Are Christian Probably Believe In The Same God, Because I Think You Believe In The God Who Created The Universe. That's The One We Believe In, The One Who Created Universe - The Only Difference Being You Call Him God And We Call Him Allah. The Jews Call Him Jehovah. If You Could Understand Hebrew, You Would Probably Call Him Jehovah Too. If You Could Understand Arabic, You Would Probably Call Him Allah.

Just Because A Cat Has Kittens In The Oven, That Doesn't Make Them Biscuits.

We Won't Organize Any Black Man To Be A Democrat Or A Republican Because Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out. Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out; Both Parties Have Sold Us Out. Both Parties Are Racist, And The Democratic Party Is More Racist Than The Republican Party.

I See America Through The Eyes Of The Victim. I Don’t See Any American Dream; I See An American Nightmare.

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.

One Of The Things That Made The Black Muslim Movement Grow Was Its Emphasis Upon Things African. This Was The Secret To The Growth Of The Black Muslim Movement. African Blood, African Origin, African Culture, African Ties. And You'd Be Surprised - We Discovered That Deep Within The Subconscious Of The Black Man In This Country, He Is Still More African Than He Is American.

America Is A White Man's Country.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt Could Easily Have Told Negroes The Deceitful Maneuvering Of The United States Government That Was Going On Behind The Scenes. She Never Did It. In My Opinion She Was Just Another White Woman Whose Profession Was To Make It Appear That She Was On The Negro's Side. You Have A Lot Of Whites Who Are In This Category. Therefore, They Have Made Negro Loving A Profession.

Behind The Scenes

It Is A Time For Martyrs Now, And If I Am To Be One, It Will Be For The Cause Of Brotherhood. That's The Only Thing That Can Save This Country.

Nobody Should Teach The Black Man In America To Turn The Other Cheek, Unless Someone Is Teaching The White Man In America To Turn The Other Cheek.

By Any Means Necessary.

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

All Of The Civil Rights Problems During The Past Years Have Created A Situation Where America Right Now Is Moving Toward A Police State. You Can't Have Anything Otherwise. So That's Your Supposition.

My Sincerity Is My Credentials.

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

If Africa Wasn't Beautiful The White Man Wouldn't Want It.

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.

The Only Time The White Man Is Brotherly Toward You Is When He Can Use You, When He Can Exploit You, When He Will Oppress You, When You Will Submit To Him.

I Don't Trust Any White Man Who Teaches Negroes To Turn The Other Cheek Or To Be Nonviolent, Which Means To Be Defenseless In The Face Of A Very Brutal, Criminal Enemy. No. That's My Yardstick For Measuring Whites.

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.

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

Only A Man Who Is Ashamed Of What He Is Will Marry Out Of His Race.

I Have More Respect For A Man Who Lets Me Know Where He Stands, Even If He's Wrong, Than The One Who Comes Up Like An Angel And Is Nothing But A Devil.

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

Muhammad Teaches Us The Knowledge Of Our Own Selves, And Of Our Own People. He Cleans Us Up-morally, Mentally And Spiritually

Right Now, In Every Big City Ghetto, Tens Of Thousands Of Yesterday's And Today's School Dropouts Are Keeping Body And Soul Together By Some Form Of Hustling In The Same Way I Did.

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 Say It Is Not Practical, One Has To Also Admit That Integration Is Not Practical.

These Were African-arab-asian Values. The Only Section Of Europe That Had A High Value System During The Dark Ages Was The, Were Those On The Iberian Peninsula In The Spanish-portuguese Area, Southern France.

The Problem [ Of The Twenty-two Million Afro-americans] Is So Broad That It's Going To Take The Inner Working Of All Organizations.

I Think That The Black People In This Country Have The Reached The Point Where They Should Reserve The Right To Do Whatever Is Necessary To See That They Exercise Complete Control Over The Politicians In The Politician, In The Politics Of Their Own Community By Whatever Means Necessary.

I Find It Difficult [to Believe] That... Christians Accuse [black Muslims] Of Teaching Racial Supremacy Or... Hatred, Because Their Own History And... Teachings Are Filled With It.

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

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Hating Yourself

I Think That The Problem Of The American Negro Goes Beyond The Principle Of Any Organization Whether It's A Religious, Political, Or Otherwise.

One Of The Main Things That I Read About It That Appealed To Me Was In Islam A Man Is Honored As A Human Being And Not Measured By The Color Of His Skin.

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

No President Ever Had More Power Than [franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Don't Be Bitter. Remember Lot's Wife When They Kill Me, And They Surely Will. You Have To Use All Of Your Energy To Do What It Is You Have To Do. [to His Wife Betty Shabazz]

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

If The Emancipation Proclamation Was Authentic, You Wouldn't Have A Race Problem.

Emancipation Proclamation

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.

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."

If You're Not Ready To Die For It, Put The Word 'freedom' Out Of Your Vocabulary.

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.

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.

Today We Have A Modern Belshazzar And A Modern Pharaoh Sitting In Washington D.c.

As Long As The Factories Are In The Hands Of The Whites, The Housing Is In The Hands Of The Whites, The School System Is In The Hands Of The Whites, You Have A Situation Where The Blacks Are Constantly Begging The Whites Can They Use This Or Can They Use That. That's Not Any Kind Of Equality Of Opportunity, Nor Does It Lend Toward One's Dignity.

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

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

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.

America's Most Dangerous And Threatening Black Man Is The One Who Has Been Kept Sealed Up By The Northerner In The Black Ghettos - The Northern White Power Structure's System To Keep Talking Democracy While Keeping The Black Man Out Of Sight Somewhere, Around The Corner.

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.

No Black Person Married To A White Person Can Speak For Me!

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

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

Whoever Is Standing Up Telling The White Man That His Position Is Unjust And That The Black People Should Not Have To Wait For Any Supreme Court, Congress Or Senate To Legislate, Or Even The President To Issue Any Kind Of - Of A Proclamation To Better The Condition Of Our People, If A N - If He - If A, If A Negro Leader Is Standing Up, Making That Point Clear, Then He's All Right With Us.

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.

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

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.

The Greatest Weapon The Colonial Powers Have Used In The Past Against Our People Has Always Been His Ability To Divide And Conquer. If I Take My Hand And Slap You, It Might Sting You Because These Digits Are Separated. But All I Have To Do To Put You Back In Your Place Is Bring Those Digits Together.

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.

Foreign Diplomats Could Have Modeled Their Conduct On The Way The Negro Postmen, Pullman Porters, And Dining Car Waiters Of Roxbury [massachusetts] Acted, Striding Around As If They Were Wearing Top Hats And Cutaways.

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

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

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

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

A Race Of People Is Like And Individual Man; Until It Uses Its Own Talent, Takes Pride In Its Own History, Expresses Its Own Culture, Affirms Its Own Selfhood, It Can Never Fulfill Itself.

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

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.

You're Not Supposed To Be So Blind With Patriotism That You Can't Face Reality. Wrong Is Wrong, No Matter Who Says It.

We Would Do The Same Thing That America Did When The Jap[an] - When, When Pearl Harbor Was Attacked. America Defended Itself. They Said Praise The Lord, But They Passed The Ammunition.

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

Betraying Friends

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

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.

In My Recent Travels Into African Countries And Others, I Was Impressed By The Importance Of Having A Working Unity Among All Peoples, Black As Well As White.

It Is Incorrect To Classify The Revolt Of The Negro As Simply A Radical Conflict Of Black Against White Or As A Purely American Problem. Rather, We Are Today Seeing A Global Rebellion Of The Oppressed Against The Oppressor, The Exploited Against The Exploiter.

Its The Hinge That Squeaks That Gets The Grease

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

[ Negro Leaders] Never Let The White Man Know Exactly What Black People Are Thinking.

Until The White Man In America Sits Down And Talks With The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, He Won't Even Know What The Race Problem - What Makes The Race Problem What It Is.

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.

Education Is Our Passport To The Future.

First Day Of School

America Is Such A Paradoxical Society, Hypocritically Paradoxical, That If You Don't Have Some Humor, You'll Crack Up.

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.

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

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

Can You Accuse Me, If A Man Is Putting A Rope Around My Neck, Of Being Violent, When I Violently Struggle Against This Lyncher To Try And Keep Him From Putting A Rope Around My Innocent Neck? Why, You'd Be Insane To Cause Me - To Call Me Violent.

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

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.

Only The Whites In The South Aren't Hypocritical About It. You Don't Find Any More Inter - There Is Just As Much Social Intermixing In The South As There - Between The Races As There Is In The North. Only They - In The South They Let You Know - Where They Stand, And In The North They Take A Hypocritical Approach Or Attitude Or Reaction.

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

It Took The United States Army To Get One Negro Into The University Of Mississippi; It Took Troops To Get A Few Negroes In The White Schools At Little Rock And Another Dozen Places In The South.

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.'

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library.

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.

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

Human Rights Are Something You Were Born With. Human Rights Are Your God-given Rights. Human Rights Are The Rights That Are Recognized By All Nations Of This Earth.

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

Martin Luther King Has Made The Negro In America Unnatural.

I Never Will Let Anyone Make, Maneuver Me Into Making A Distinction Between The Mississippi Form Of Discrimination And The New York City Form Of Discrimination. It's, It's Both Discrimination; It's All Discrimination.

Everybody Has A God And Believes That His God Will Deliver Him And Protect Him From His Enemies!

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!

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

Because Once The Black Man Becomes The Political Master Of His Own Community, It Means That The Politicians Of That Community Will Also Be Black, Which Also Means That He Then Will Be Sending Black Representation Or Representatives Not Only To Represent Him At The Local Level And At The State Level, But, But Even At The Federal Level.

You Can Cuss Out Colonialism, Imperialism, And All Other Kinds Of Ism, But It's Hard For You To Cuss That Dollarism. When They Drop Those Dollars On You, Your Soul Goes.

Children Have A Lesson Adults Should Learn, To Not Be Ashamed Of Failing, But To Get Up And Try Again. Most Of Us Adults Are So Afraid, So Cautious, So 'safe,' And Therefore So Shrinking And Rigid And Afraid That It Is Why So Many Humans Fail. Most Middle-aged Adults Have Resigned Themselves To Failure.

A Man Without Any History Is Like A Tree Without Roots

Let's Cool It Brothers . . . Spoken To His Assassins, Three Men Who Stabbed Him 16 Times.

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

They [prisons] Are Not Designed To Rehabilitate The - The Inmate, Though The, The Public Propaganda Is That This Is Their Function.

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

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.

[black Nationalism] Is Not Designed To Make The Black Man Reevaluate The White Man--you Know Him Already--but To Make The Black Man Re-evaluate Himself. Don't Change The White Man's Mind; You Can't Change His Mind. And That Whole Thing About Appealing To The Moral Conscience Of America--america's Conscience Is Bankrupt.

I'll Say Nothing Against Him. At One Time The Whites In The United States Called Him A Racialist, And Extremist, And A Communist. Then The Black Muslims Came Along And The Whites Thanked The Lord For Martin Luther King.

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

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

Negroes Don't Even Like Snails! What They're Doing Is Proving They're Integrated.

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.

I Believe In Human Rights For Everyone, And None Of Us Is Qualified To Judge Each Other And That None Of Us Should Therefore Have That Authority.

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

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.

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.

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