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The White Man Supports Reverend Martin Luther King, Subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, So That Reverend Martin Luther King Can Continue To Teach The Negroes To Be Defenseless - That's What You Mean By Nonviolent - Be Defenseless In The Face Of One Of The Most Cruel Beasts That Has Ever Taken People Into Captivity - That's This American White Man, And They Have Proved It Throughout The Country By The Police Dogs And The Police Clubs.

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Malcolm X

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The White Man Supports Reverend Martin Luther King, Subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, So That Reverend Martin Luther King Can Continue To Teach The Negroes To Be Defenseless - That's What You Mean By Nonviolent - Be Defenseless In The Face Of One Of The Most Cruel Beasts That Has Ever Taken People Into Captivity - That's This American White Man, And They Have Proved It Throughout The Country By The Police Dogs And The Police Clubs.

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Most Of [ The Negro Leaders] Who - Who, Whose Existence Or Whose Position Of Leadership Depends Upon The - On The Subsidy Or Crumbs For - The Crumbs From The White Man's Table, Will Only Say What That White Man Wants To Hear. When They Get Behind The Door They Talk A Different Language.

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

The Black Man In North America Was Economically Sick And That Was Evident In One Simple Fact: As A Consumer, He Got Less Than His Share, And As A Producer Gave Least. The Black American Today Shows Us The Perfect Parasite Image - The Black Tick Under The Delusion That He Is Progressing Because He Rides On The Udder Of The Fat, Three-stomached Cow That Is White America.

The White Man Supports Reverend Martin Luther King, Subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, So That Reverend Martin Luther King Can Continue To Teach The Negroes To Be Defenseless - That's What You Mean By Nonviolent - Be Defenseless In The Face Of One Of The Most Cruel Beasts That Has Ever Taken People Into Captivity - That's This American White Man, And They Have Proved It Throughout The Country By The Police Dogs And The Police Clubs.

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

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

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That The Black Man In America, For The Past 400 Years, Has Been Like A Boy In The White Man's House, Begging The White Man For A Job, For Food, Clothing And Shelter. And Then After The White Man Provides Him With All Of These Things, He Turns Around And Get - Has The Nerve To Get Angry At The White Man When The White Man Tries To Control His Life.

I Remember One Thing That Marred This Time For Me; The Movie "gone With The Wind." When It Played In Mason [mi], I Was The Only Negro In The Theater, And When Butterfly Mcqueen Went Into Her Act, I Felt Like Crawling Under The Rug.

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.

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

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

Integration Will Not Bring A Man Back From The Grave.

Some Things Are Better Done Than Said.

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library.

I Myself Have Never Been Concerned With Whether We Are Considered Known Or Unknown. It's No Problem Of Ours.

Sitting At The Table Doesn't Make You A Diner, Unless You Eat Some Of What's On That Plate.

What It Means To Be An American

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

Nowhere In History Has The White Man Been Brotherly Toward Anyone.

Do Something For Yourself, And Then You Will Be Recognized By The Entire World As A Man Who Has Done For Himself What Others Have Done For Themselves.

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

When You Mentioned Something About Self Improvement, The Implication Is That The Negro Is Something Distinct Or Different, And, Therefore, Needs To Learn How To Improve Himself. Negro Leaders Resent This Being Said, Not Because They Don't Know That It's True, But They're Thinking, They're Looking At It Personally. They Think That The Implication Is Directed Even At Them, And That They, And They Duck This Responsibility.

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.'

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

Dr Martin Luther King

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

The Black People Of America Have Been Victims Of Violence At The Hands Of The White Men For Four Hundred Years, And Following The Ignorant Negro Preachers, We Have Thought That It Was Godlike To Turn The Other Cheek To The Brute That Was Brutalizing Us.

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.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is Teaching The Black Man, You're A Human Man.all You Have To Do Is Dignify Yourself. You Don't Have To Wait For Any White Man To Recognize You. Recognize Yourself. Love Each Other. Practice Harmony And Brotherhood Among Your Own Kind.

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

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 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.

Let's Cool It, Brothers.

Its The Hinge That Squeaks That Gets The Grease

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Law Of Nature Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked. And God's Law Itself Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked.so, Peaceful Suffering And Passive Resistance And All Of That Stuff Is All Right Maybe In India Somewhere, Where The People In India Outnumber The Whites - About A Million To One.but Here In America, When You Tell That's Like An Elephant Sitting Down On A - On A Mouse In India With [mahatma] Gandhi.

Passive Resistance

I Was With Essien Udom In Nigeria.

I Have Read Where Abraham Lincoln Said He Wasn't Interested In Freeing The Slaves.

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.

In Fact, Once He Is Motivated No One Can Change More Completely Than The Man Who Has Been At The Bottom. I Call Myself The Best Example Of That.

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

In This Country, These Negro Leaders Have Negroes Sittin' - Sitting Down, Thinking That That - There's Dignity Towards Sitting In.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I Think You'll Find Also That If The Negro Ever Realizes That He Should Begin To Fight For Real For His Freedom, There Are Many Whites Who Will Fight On His Side With Him.

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!

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?

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.

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

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

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Hence I Have No Mercy Or Compassion In Me For A Society That Will Crush People, And Then Penalize Them For Not Being Able To Stand Up Under The Weight.

We Didn't Land On Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock Landed On Us".

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.

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

We're Primarily Interested In Solving The Problem Of 20 Million Black People. And If Integration Is Going To Solve The Problem Tomorrow, Then Let's Integrate. But Since The Supreme Court Issued Its Desegregation Decision Seven Years Ago, And You Only Have About Six Or Seven Percent Integration Now, On An Educational Level, That Means That The Black Man Trying To Use Integration As A Means Of Solving His Problem Will Be Another 100 Years Just Getting Integration On An Educational Level.

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.

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!

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

I Know That Societies Often Have Killed People Who Have Helped To Change Those Societies. And If I Can Die Having Brought Any Light, Having Exposed Any Meaningful Truth That Will Help Destroy The Racist Cancer That Is Malignant In The Body Of America, Then, All Credit Is Due To Allah. Only The Mistakes Have Been Mine.

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.

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

The Only Way The Two Can Have Equal Job Opportunities Is If Black People Have Factories As, As Well As White People Have Factories.

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.'

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

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.

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.

Since Integration Is So Slow, And The White Man Knows The Problem Must Be Solved, The Only Thing That He Can Do Tomorrow Is, Is Separate, Because We're Already Separated.

A Revolution Is Bloody. Revolution Is Hostile. Revolution Knows No Compromise. Revolution Overturns And Destroys Everything That Gets In Its Way. And You, Sitting Around Here Like A Knot On The Wall, Saying, “i’m Going To Love These Folks No Matter How Much They Hate Me.” No, You Need A Revolution. Whoever Heard Of A Revolution Where They Lock Arms, As Reverend Cleage Was Pointing Out Beautifully, Singing “we Shall Overcome”? Just Tell Me. You Don’t Do That In A Revolution. You Don’t Do Any Singing; You’re Too Busy Swinging.

[jf] Kennedy Was A Deceitful Man. He Was A Cold-blooded Politician Whose Purpose Was To Get Elected.

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.

Just Take The Negro Child. Take The White Child. The White Child, Although It Has Not Committed Any Of The Per - As A Person Has Not Committed Any Of The Deeds That Has Produced The Plight That The Negro Finds Himself In, Is He Guiltless? The Only Way You Can Determine That Is, Take The Negro Child Who's Only Four-years-old. Can He Escape, Though He's Only Four Years Old, Can He Escape The Stigma Of Discrimination And Segregation? He's Only Four-years-old.

You Don't Integrate With A Sinking Ship.

All Over This World People Are Standing Up For Freedom.

The Only Minority In America That's Asking For Integration Is The So-called Negro, Primarily Because He Is Inferior, Not Inherently Inferior, But He's Economically, Socially, Politically Inferior.

When I Said [ I Would Work With Any Organization] I Would Make The, The Reservation That I Would Work With Any Organization As Long As It Didn't Make Us Compromise Our Religious Principles.

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!

I'm Trying To Get At This. That Is, A Man May Know That He Belongs To, Say, A Group - This Group Or That Group - But He Feels Himself Lost Within That Group, Trapped Within His Own Deficiencies And Without Personal Purpose.

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.

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

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.

Our Objective Is Complete Freedom, Justice And Equality By Any Means Necessary.

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

Nonviolence Is Fine As Long As It Works.

I Look At The Problem Of The Twenty-two Million Afro-americans As Being A Problem That's So Broad In Scope That It's Almost Impossible For Any Organization To See It In Its Entirety.

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.

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.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us The Religion Of Islam, Which Is A Religion Of Peace.

Religion Of Islam

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

Concerning Non-violence: It Is Criminal To Teach A Man Not To Defend Himself When He Is The Constant Victim Of Brutal Attacks.

I Believe That It Would Be Almost Impossible To Find Anywhere In America A Black Man Who Has Lived Further Down In The Mud Of Human Society Than I Have; Or A Black Man Who Has Been Any More Ignorant Than I Have; Or A Black Man Who Has Suffered More Anguish During His Life Than I Have. But It Is Only After The Deepest Darkness That The Greatest Joy Can Come; It Is Only After Slavery And Prison That The Sweetest Appreciation Of Freedom Can Come.

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of All Men, But I Don't Believe In Wasting Brotherhood On Anyone Who Doesn't Want To Practice It With Me. Brotherhood Is A Two-way Street.

Brotherhood Of Man

You Have The Upper Class Negroes Who Are The Modern Day Uncle Toms Or The 20th Century Uncle Toms. They Don't Wear A Handkerchief Anymore. They Wear Top Hats. They're Called Doctor, They're Called - Reverend, But They're Still - They Play The Same Role Today That Uncle Tom Played On The Plantation.

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.

Only The Mistakes Were Mine.

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.

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

Whenever Any Black Man In America Shows Signs Of An Uncompromising Attitude, Against The Injustices That He Experiences Daily, And Shows No Tendency Whatsoever To Compromise With It, Then The American Press [characterizes Him] As A Radical, As An Extremist Someone Who's Irresponsible, Or As A Rabble Rouser Or Someone Who Doesn't Rationalize In Dealing With The Problem.

He [liberal White Person] May Stand With You Through Thin, But Not Thick; When The Chips Are Down, You'll Find That As Fixed In Him As His Bone Structure Is His Sometimes Subconscious Conviction That He's Better Than Anybody Black.

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.

Even After The Child, The Life Of The Black Child Was Saved, But That Same White Man Will Have To Toss Him Right Back Into The Discriminate, Into Discrimination, Segregation, And These Other Things.

The White Man Is Not Inherently Evil, But America's Racist Society Influences Him To Act Evilly. The Society Has Produced And Nourishes A Psychology Which Brings Out The Lowest, Most Base Part Of Human Beings.

Once He [negro] Realizes That [he Is At War ], Then He Can Defend Himself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We Are About To Have A Racial Explosion.

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.

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

Betraying Friends

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.

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.

God Is More Lasting Than The White Man.

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.

A Man Who Stands For Nothing Will Fall For Anything.

Whenever I Walk The Street And See People Ready To Get With It, That's My Reward.

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

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

For Tommorow Belongs To Those That Prepare For It Today.

During The Whole Month That Negroes Were Being Beaten By Police And Washed Down The Sewer With Water Hoses, Kennedy And - And King Was In Jail Begging For The Federal Government To Intervene, Kennedy's Reply Was, "no Federal Statutes Have Been Violated." And It Was Only When The Negroes Erupted That Kennedy Come On The Television With All His Old Pretty Words.

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

We Don't Go For Segregation. We Go For Separation. Separation Is When You Have Your Own. You Control Your Own Economy; You Control Your Own Politics; You Control Your Own Society; You Control Your Own Everything.

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.

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

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.

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!

At The Bottom Of The Social Heap Is The Black Man In The Big-city Ghetto. He Lives Night And Day With The Rats And The Cockroaches And Drowns Himself With Alcohol And Anesthetizes Himself With Dope, To Try And Forget Where And What He Is. That Negro Has Given Up All Hope. He's The Hardest One For Us To Reach, Because He's The Deepest In The Mud. But When You Get Him, You've Got The Best Kind Of Muslim. I Look Upon Myself As A Prime Example Of This Category - As Graphic An Example As You Could Find Of The Salvation Of The Black Man.

My Beliefs Are Now One Hundred Percent Against Racism And Segregation In Any Form And I Also Believe That We Don't Judge A Person By The Color Of His Skin But Rather By His Deeds.

Stumbling Isn't Falling.

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.

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.

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?

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

In The Past, Yes, I Have Made Sweeping Indictments Of All White People. I Never Will Be Guilty Of That Again - As I Know Now That Some White People Are Truly Sincere, That Some Truly Are Capable Of Being Brotherly Toward A Black Man. The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Made Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

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

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.

I'm Not Going To Sit At Your Table And Watch You Eat, With Nothing On My Plate, And Call Myself A Diner. Sitting At The Table Doesn't Make You A Diner.

African American

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The White Devil's Time Is Up.

When You Want A Nation, That's Called Nationalism... Black Nationalism. A Revolutionary Is A Black Nationalist. He Wants A Nation.

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

Most Of These Other Negro Leaders Who Are Supposedly Integrationists Aren't That Intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

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

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

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.

I Don't Care How Nice One Is To You, The Thing You Must Always Remember Is That Almost Never Does He Really See You As He Sees Himself, As He Sees His Own Kind.

Learn The Language That They Understand, And When They Come Upon Our Doorstep To Talk We Can Talk, And They Will Get The Point. There Will Be A Dialog, There Will Be Some Communication, And I Am Quite Certain That Then There Will Be Some Understanding.

The White Man Will Keep On Granting Tokenism; A Few Big Negroes Will Get Big Jobs, But The Black Masses Will Catch Hell As Long As They Stay In The White Man's House.

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.

America Has Allowed White People To Kill And Brutalize Those They Don't Like.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The Same As In A German Neighborhood, The Stores Are Run By Germans, And In A Chinese Neighborhood They're Run By Chinese. In The Negro Neighborhood The Businesses Should Be Owned And Operated By Negroes And, Thereby, They Would Be Creating Employment For Negroes.

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.

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!

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

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.

I Looked On The Television The Other Night And Saw Them Beating A Negro Unmercifully In Mississippi. And This Is The Result Of A Brainwashing Technique, A Certain Power Structure In The American Government Has Paid These Negro Integrationist Leaders To Perpetuate Among Our People. But It's Not A Good Thing, And It Will Never Solve Our Problem.

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.

Our Accent Will Be Upon Youth: We Need New Ideas, New Methods, New Approaches. We Will Call Upon Young Students Of Political Science Throughout The Nation To Help Us. We Will Encourage These Young Students To Launch Their Own Independent Study, And Then Give Us Their Analysis And Their Suggestions. We Are Completely Disenchanted With The Old, Adult, Established Politicians. We Want To See Some New Faces -- More Militant Faces.

There Are Many White People In This Country Who Realize That The System Itself - As It Is Constructed - Is Not So Constructed That It Can Produce Freedom And Equality For The Negro, And The System Has To Be Changed.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Religion Of Islam

White Is An Attitude.

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

Respect Me, Or Put Me To Death.

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.

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

To Have Once Been A Criminal Is No Disgrace. To Remain A Criminal Is The Disgrace

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.

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

Any Number Of My Former Brothers Felt They Would Make Heroes Of Themselves In The Nation Of Islam If They Killed Me. ...i Knew That No One Would Kill You Quicker Than Muslim If He Felt That's What Allah Wanted Him To Do.

The Law Of Nature Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked. And God's Law Itself Gives A Man The Right To Defend Himself When He's Attacked.

The Real Names Of Our People Were Destroyed During Slavery. The Last Name Of My Forefathers Was Taken From Them When They Were Brought To America And Made Slaves, And Then The Name Of The Slave Master Was Given, Which We Refuse, We Reject That Name Today And Refuse It. I Never Acknowledge It Whatsoever.

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.

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.

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