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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.

-Malcolm X

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We're Primarily Interested In

Malcolm X

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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.

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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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I Believe That A Psychological, Cultural, And Philosophical Migration Back To Africa Will Solve Our Problem.

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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.

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

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

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African American

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

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We Declare Our Right On This Earth...to Be A Human Being, To Be Respected As A Human Being, To Be Given The Rights Of A Human Being In This Society, On This Earth, In This Day, Which We Intend To Bring Into Existence By Any Means Necessary.

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

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

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

The White Man Knows What A Revolution Is. He Knows That The Black Revolution Is Worldwide In Scope And In Nature. The Black Revolution Is Sweeping Asia, Is Sweeping Africa, Is Rearing Its Head In Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - That's A Revolution. They Overturned The System. Revolution Is In Asia, Revolution Is In Africa, And The White Man Is Screaming Because He Sees Revolution In Latin America. How Do You Think He'll React To You When You Learn What A Real Revolution Is?

One Of My Brothers Read A Lot. His Head Was Forever In Some Book.

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.

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

Religion Of Islam

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.

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

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

And When I Speak, I Don't Speak As A Democrat Or A Republican, Nor An American. I Speak As A Victim Of America's So-called Democracy. You And I Have Never Seen Democracy - All We've Seen Is Hypocrisy. When We Open Our Eyes Today And Look Around America, We See America Not Through The Eyes Of Someone Who Has Enjoyed The Fruits Of Americanism. We See America Through The Eyes Of Someone Who Has Been The Victim Of Americanism. We Don't See Any American Dream. We've Experienced Only The American Nightmare.

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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.

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Never Allow Your Enemies To Educate Your Children.

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

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.

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.

Usually When People Are Sad, They Don't Do Anything. They Just Cry Over Their Condition. But When They Get Angry, They Bring About A Change.

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.

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

My Family Was So Poor We Were Close To Eating The Holes Inside Of Doughnuts.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

Nonviolence Is Fine As Long As It Works.

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

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.

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.

This Was My First Lesson About Gambling: If You See Somebody Winning All The Time, He Isn't Gambling, He's Cheating. Later On In Life, If I Were Continuously Losing In Any Gambling Situation, I Would Watch Very Closely.

When We Say Afro American, We Include Everyone In The Western Hemisphere Of African Descent. South America Is America. Central America Is America. South America Has Many People In It Of African Descent.

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 Had Blind Faith In Him. My Faith In Elijah Muhammad Was More Blind And More Uncompromising Than Any Faith That Any Man Has Ever Had For Another Man. And So I Didn't Try And See Him As He Actually Was.

I Think That The Negro Should Reserve The Right To Execute.

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

The War Of Armageddon Has Already Started... God Is Using His Many Weapons. He Is Sending Hurricanes So Fast That [the Blue-eyed Devils] Can't Name Them. He Is Drowning Them In Floods And Causing Their Cars To Crash And Their Airplanes Cannot Stay Up In The Sky. Their Boats Are Sinking Because Allah Controls All Things And He Is Using All Methods To Begin To Wipe The Devils Off The Planet, [and] The Enemy Is Dying Of Diseases That Have Never Been So Deadly.

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

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

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.

If Integration Will Get [black Man] That [respect As The Human Being], All Right. If Segregation Will Get Him That, All Right. If Separation Will Get Him That, All Right.but After He Gets Integration And He Still Doesn't Have This Dignity And This Recognition As A Human Being, Then His Problem Is Still Not Solved.

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

Instead Of Working For White Man And Helping Him Hold Up A Government That Continues To Suppress Us Socially And, And Exploit Us Economically And Oppress Us Politically, Let Us Go And Enter Our Own Territory And Use Our Own Talents To Uplift Ourselves By Our Own Bootstraps. And Then He Will Recognize Us For What We Are.

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

After Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor, We Have Some Back Pay Coming, A Bill Owed To Us That Must Be Collected.

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How Could There Be Any Difference Between The Messenger And Me? I Am His Slave, His Servant, His Son. He Is The Leader, The Only Spokesman For The Black Muslims.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I Was With Essien Udom In Nigeria.

The Media's The Most Powerful Entity On Earth. They Have The Power To Make The Innocent Guilty And To Make The Guilty Innocent, And That's Power. Because They Control The Minds Of The Masses.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Anything I Do Today, I Regard As Urgent.

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.

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