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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.

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When The Snakes Out

Malcolm X

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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.

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If You Have An All-white Neighborhood You Don't Call It A Segregated Neighborhood. But You Call An All-black Neighborhood A Segregated Neighborhood. And Why? Because The Segregated Neighborhood Is The One That's Controlled By The Ou - From The Outside By Others, But A Separate Neighborhood Is A Neighborhood That Is Independent, It's Equal, It Can Do - It Can Stand On Its Own Two Feet, Such As The Neighborhood. It's An Independent, Free Neighborhood, Free Community.

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

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The Only Thing Power Respects, Is Power.

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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.

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We Are Nonviolent With People Who Are Nonviolent With Us.

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

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

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Much Of What I Say Might Sound Like It's Stirring Up Trouble, But It's The Truth!

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.

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.

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

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Respect Me, Or Put Me To Death.

The Goal - Is The Dignity Of The Black Man In America. He Wants Respect As The Human Being. He Wants Recognition As A Human Being.

The Thing That You Have To Understand About Those Of Us In The Black Muslim Movement Was That All Of Us Believed 100 Percent In The Divinity Of Elijah Muhammad. We Believed In Him. We Actually Believed That God, In Detroit By The Way, That God Had Taught Him And All Of That. I Always Believed That He Believed In Himself. And I Was Shocked When I Found Out That He Himself Didn't Believe It.

You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism.

If You Read The Story Of Slavery And See The Part That The Uncle Tom Played In The Plantation, And Then You See How The White Man Today Has Changed His Tactics, But He Still Occupies The Same Position, In That Same Context You Find Uncle Tom. He Has Changed His Tactics But He Still Occupies The Same Position.

It Is Only After Slavery And Prison That The Sweetest Appreciation Of Freedom Can Come.

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.

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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 Don't Favor Violence. If We Could Bring About Recognition And Respect Of Our People By Peaceful Means, Well And Good. Everybody Would Like To Reach His Objectives Peacefully. But I'm Also A Realist. The Only People In This Country Who Are Asked To Be Nonviolent Are Black People.

The Death Of Over 120 White People Is A Very Beautiful Thing.

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.

I Feel Like A Man Who Has Been Asleep Somewhat And Under Someone Else's Control. I Feel That What I'm Thinking And Saying Is Now For Myself. Before It Was For And By The Guidance Of Elijah Muhammad. Now I Think With My Own Mind, Sir!

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

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

[the Man] Thinks He's Being Condemned Because Of His Color But Actually He's Being Condemned Because Of His Deeds, His Conscious Behavior.

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.

The Junkie Can Never Start To Cure Himself Until He Recognizes His True Condition.

The American Negro Never Can Be Blamed For His Racial Animosities - He Is Only Reacting To Four Hundred Years Of The Conscious Racism Of The American Whites.

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

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

I Admire A Man Who Fights A Battle Against Opposition, And If There Wasn't Something About [reverend] Galamison That The People, I Notice That The Power Structure Is Against Galamison.

When A Person Places The Proper Value On Freedom, There Is Nothing Under The Sun That He Will Not Do To Acquire That Freedom. Whenever You Hear A Man Saying He Wants Freedom, But In The Next Breath He Is Going To Tell You What He Won't Do To Get It, Or What He Doesn't Believe In Doing In Order To Get It, He Doesn't Believe In Freedom. A Man Who Believes In Freedom Will Do Anything Under The Sun To Acquire... Or Preserve His Freedom.

You Can't Legislate Good Will - That Comes Through Education.

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

Ten Guards And The Warden Couldn't Have Torn Me Out Of Those Books. Months Passed Without Even Thinking About Being Imprisoned....i Had Never Been So Truly Free In My Life.

We Are About To Have A Racial Explosion.

America Needs To Understand Islam, Because This Is The One Religion That Erases From Its Society The Race Problem.

Whenever You're Going After Something That Belongs To You, Anyone Who's Depriving You Of The Right To Have It Is A Criminal. Understand That. Whenever You Are Going After Something That Is Yours, You Are Within Your Legal Rights To Lay Claim To It. And Anyone Who Puts Forth Any Effort To Deprive You Of That Which Is Yours, Is Breaking The Law, Is A Criminal.

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

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.

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

22 Million African-americans - That's What We Are - Africans Who Are In America.

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

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.

A Man Who Believes In Freedom Will Do Anything Under The Sun To Acquire, Or Preserve His Freedom.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Thorough Understanding

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

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

I Think There Are Plenty Of Good People In America, But There Are Also Plenty Of Bad People In America And The Bad Ones Are The Ones Who Seem To Have All The Power And Be In These Positions To Block Things That You And I Need.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, You Integration-minded Negroes Are Trying To Force Yourselves On Your Former Slave Master, Trying To Make Him Accept You In His Drawing Room; You Want To Hang Out With His Women Rather Than The Women Of Your Own Kind.

I Am A Muslim And . . . My Religion Makes Me Be Against All Forms Of Racism. It Keeps Me From Judging Any Man By The Color Of His Skin. It Teaches Me To Judge Him By His Deeds And His Conscious Behavior. And It Teaches Me To Be For The Rights Of All Human Beings, But Especially The Afro-american Human Being, Because My Religion Is A Natural Religion, And The First Law Of Nature Is Self-preservation.

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

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

I Had One Warden Tell Me Since I've Been Out, And I Visited An Inmate In Prison Right Here In New York, Warden Fay Up At Green Haven. I Visited An Inmate In Prison And He Told Me That He Didn't Want Anybody In There Trying To Spread This Religion.

Everybody Shall Be Accepted No Matter What They Stand For, You Are Not Always Going To Agree On Their Faith.

By Explaining The Difference Between Segregation And Separation. Segregation Is That Which Is Forced Upon An Inferior By A Superior. Separation Is Done Voluntarily By Two Equals. If I Have Children And They Live In My House, I Care For Them, They're Dependent Upon Me. And Their Dependence Upon Me Puts Me In A Position To Regulate Their Lives, Control Their Lives, Tell Them Where To Go, Where They Can't Go. That's A Form Of Segregation.

Any Time You Demonstrate Against Segregation And A Man Has The Audacity To Put A Police Dog On You, Kill That Dog, Kill Him, I'm Telling You, Kill That Dog. I Say It If They Put Me In Jail Tomorrow, Kill That Dog. Then You'll Put A Stop To It.

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.

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

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

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

When A Man Understands Who He Is, Who God Is, Who The Devil Is... Then He Can Pick Himself Up Out Of The Gutter; He Can Clean Himself Up And Stand Up Like A Man Should Before His God.

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

Those Type Of Whites Who Are Always Going To Jail With Negroes Are The Ones Who Tell Negroes To Be Loving And Be Kind And Be Patient And Be Nonviolent And Turn The Other Cheek.

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.

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

America Is A White Man's Country.

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 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 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.

I Believe When A Negro Church Is Bombed, That A White Church Should Be Bombed.

You Show Me A Capitalist, And I'll Show You A Bloodsucker.

It's Easy To Become A Satellite Today Without Even Being Aware Of It. This Country Can Seduce God. Yes, It Has That Seductive Power; The Power Of The Dollar.

I Just Don't Believe That When People Are Being Unjustly Oppressed That They Should Let Someone Else Set Rules For Them By Which They Can Come Out From Under That Oppression.

Martin Luther King Has Made The Negro In America Unnatural.

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

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