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When The Thing Is Finally Sparked, The White Man Is Not There - He's Gone. The Merchant Is Not There, The Landlord Is Not There, The One They Consider To Be The Enemy Isn't There. So, They Knock At His Property. This Is What Makes Them Knock Down The Store Windows And Set Fire To Things, And Things Of That Sort.

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Malcolm X

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When The Thing Is Finally Sparked, The White Man Is Not There - He's Gone. The Merchant Is Not There, The Landlord Is Not There, The One They Consider To Be The Enemy Isn't There. So, They Knock At His Property. This Is What Makes Them Knock Down The Store Windows And Set Fire To Things, And Things Of That Sort.

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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.

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

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.

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.

It Is The System Itself That, That Is Incapable Of Producing Freedom For The Twenty-two Million Afro-americans. Just Like A Chicken Can't Lay A Duck Egg, A Chicken Can't Lay A Duck Egg, Because The System Of The Chicken Isn't Constructed In The Way To Produce A Duck Egg. And Just As That Chicken System Can't Produce, Is Not Capable To, Of Producing A Duck Egg, The Political And Economic System Of This Country Is Absolutely Incapable Of Producing Freedom And Justice And Equality And Human Dignity For The Twenty-two Million Afro-americans.

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.

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.

The Black Man Will Inherit The Earth; He Will Resume Control, Taking Back The Position He Held Centuries Ago When The White Devil Was Crawling Around The Caves Of Europe On His All Fours. Before The White Devil Came Into Our Lives We Had A Civilization, We Had A Culture, We Were Living In Silks And Satins. Then He Put Us In Chains And Put Us Aboard The "good Ship Jesus," And We Have Lived In Hell Ever Since.

Now The Goal Of Dr. Martin Luther King Is To Give Negroes A Chance To Sit In A Segregated Restaurant Beside The Same White Man Who Has Brutalized Them For Four Hundred Years.

I Have Often Reflected Upon The New Vistas That Reading Has Opened To Me. I Knew Right There In Prison That Reading Had Changed Forever The Course Of My Life. As I See It Today, The Ability To Read Awoke Inside Me Some Long Dormant Craving To Be Mentally Alive.

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

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?

The Common Enemy Is The White Man.

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If You Are In A Country That Is Progressive, The Woman Is Progressive. If You're In A Country That Reflects The Consciousness Toward The Importance Of Education, It's Because The Woman Is Aware Of The Importance Of Education. But In Every Backward Country You'll Find The Women Are Backward, And In Every Country Where Education Is Not Stressed Its Because The Women Don't Have Education.

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

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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.

This Is A God-given Right Of Any Man.anytime You Have A Man Who Is Getting Lynched, And What Are His People Supposed To Do? Sit Around And Forgive The Lyncher Or Wait On The United States Government To Go In And Get The Lyncher, Like The United States Government Did In The Case Of, Of Charles Mack Parker, And The Fbi Found Who Were The Guilty Lynchers, And Right To This Day, The Fbi, The Highest Law Enforcement Body In The Land, Has Yet To Bring The Lynchers Of Mack Parker To Justice?

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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?

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Anytime You Find Someone More Successful Than You Are, Especially When You're Both Engaged In The Same Business - You Know They're Doing Something That You Aren't.

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.

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God Is Going To Punish The White Man For His Misdeeds Toward Black People.

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The Chinese In This Country Aren't Asking For Integration.

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I Don't Encourage Any Act Of Murder Nor Do I Glorify In Anybody's Death, But I Do Think That When The White Public Uses Its Press To Magnify The Fact That There Are The Lives Of White Hostages At Stake, They Don't Say "hostages," Every Paper Says "white Hostages." They Give Me The Impression That They Attach More Importance To A White Hostage And A White Death, Than They Do The Death Of A Human Being, Despite The Color Of His Skin.

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Respect Me, Or Put Me To Death.

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

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

That's Not Our Problem, That's America's Problem. If The Average American Knew The Trouble That Uncle Sam Is In All Over This Earth, They Could See That It - We Are Closer Toward Getting A Separate Territory In This Country Than The Integrationists Are Toward Getting Integration.

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

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After I Made My Tour In The Middle, Into The Middle-east And Africa And Visited Mecca And Other Places, I Think That The Separation [ From The Black Muslim Movement] Became Psychological As Well As Physical, So That I Could Look At It More Objectively And - And Separate That Which Was Good From That Which Was Bad.

X Is Not My Real Name. But If You Study History, You'll Find Why No Black Man In The Western Hemisphere Knows His Real Name. Some Of His Ancestors Kidnapped Our Ancestors From Africa And Took Us Into The Western Hemisphere And Sold Us There, And Our Names Were Stripped From Us And So Today We Don't Know Who We Really Are. I Am One Of Those Who Admit It, And So I Just Put X Up There To Keep From Wearing His Name.

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.

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!

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

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.

It Is Only The Negro Leadership, The Bourgeois, Hand-picked, Handful Of Negroes Who Think That They're Going To Get Some Kind Of Respect, Recognition, Or Protection From The Government.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Was An Atheist, I Was Open-minded, And I Began To Read In That Direction, In The Direction Of Islam, And Everything That I Read About It Appealed To Me.

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

The White Man Is Too Intelligent To Let Someone Else Come And Gain Control Of The Economy Of His Community. But You Will Let Anyone Come In And Take Control Of The Economy Of Your Community, Control The Housing, Control The Education, Control The Jobs, Control The Businesses, Under The Pre-text That You Want To Integrate. No, You Outta Your Mind.

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

White Is An Attitude.

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.

The Negro Fought And Bled And Died In Every War The White Man Waged, And He Still Won't Give You Justice. You Nursed His Baby And Cleaned Behind His Wife, And He Still Won't Give You Freedom; You Turned The Other Cheek While He Lynched You And Raped Your Women, But He Still Won't Give You Equality.

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

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

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The White Press Itself Created Civil Right Leaders.

What Mr. Muhammad Says Is, They Should Take Their Navy And Their - Merchant Fleet And Ship Us Back Where They Got Us.and That's Not Deportation, That's - Returning Stolen Property To Its Proper Owner.now, Since The Government Doesn't Want To Do That, Then They - And They Have Already Proven That They Can't Bring About Peaceful Relations On An Integrated Basis In This Country, Give Us Some Separate Territory In This Country Where Our People Can Go And Do Something For Ourselves. And Provide Us With Everything That We Need To Keep That New Territory Going, Until We Are Self-sufficient.

America Needs To Understand Islam, Because This Is The One Religion That Erases From Its Society The Race Problem. Throughout My Travels In The Muslim World, I Have Met, Talked To, Even Eaten With People Who In America Would Have Been Considered 'white,' But The 'white' Attitude Had Been Removed From Their Minds By The Religion Of Islam.

We Don't Think That We're Begging For Anything. We Think We're Demanding What Is Ours By Right. And All We're Asking For Is An Opportunity To Do Something For Ourselves, Rather Than To Sit Around As A Beggar, Begging For Jobs And Begging For Education From - For Someone Else For The Rest Of Our Lives.

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.

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

If A White Man Puts His Arm Around Me Voluntarily, That's Brotherhood. But If You - If You Hold A Gun On Him And Make Him Embrace Me And Pretend To Be Friendly Or Brotherly Toward Me, Then That's Not Brotherhood, That's Hypocrisy. And What America Is Trying To Do Is Pass Laws To Force Whites To Pretend That They Want Negroes Into Their Schools Or Into - In Their Places Of Employment.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

How Can Anyone Be Against Love?

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

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.

For 12 Long Years I Lived Within The Narrow-minded Confines Of The 'straightjacket World' Created By My Strong Belief That Elijah Muhammad Was A Messenger Direct From God Himself, And My Faith In What I Now See To Be A Pseudo-religious Philosophy That He Preaches.... 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.

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.

If Not Now Then When, If Not Me Then Who?

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

What I Want To Know Is How The White Man, With The Blood Of Black People Dripping Off His Fingers, Can Have The Audacity To Be Asking Black People [why] They Hate Him?

So Over You Is The Greatest Enemy A Man Can Have — And That Is Fear. I Know Some Of You Are Afraid To Listen To The Truth — You Have Been Raised On Fear And Lies. But I Am Going To Preach To You The Truth Until You Are Free Of That Fear...

I Believe In Recognizing Every Human Being As A Human Being--neither White, Black, Brown, Or Red; And When You Are Dealing With Humanity As A Family There's No Question Of Integration Or Intermarriage. It's Just One Human Being Marrying Another Human Being Or One Human Being Living Around And With Another Human Being.

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.

America Is A White Man's Country.

A Hundred Years Ago The American White Men Used To Put On A White Sheet And Use A Bloodhound Against Negroes. Today They Have Taken Off The White Sheet And Put On Police Uniforms And Traded In The Bloodhounds For Police Dogs, And They're Still Doing The Same Thing.

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.

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

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

[ Uncle Sam] Is Not Sending 20 Billion Dollars To South America Because He Loves Those People Down Here. He's Sending It - Sending It To Them Because He Needs Their Friendship, He Needs Their Allegion - Their Allegiance.

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.

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

Not A State Within A State, But The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is, Is Saying That The Black Man, Since The White Man, Has Found It Impossible To Bring About Integration, Other Than Toke On A Ta - Other Than On A Token Basis, And Which Proves That The, The Two Of Us, The Ex-slave And The Master, Can't Live In The Same House As Equals.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Imagine That -- A Country That's Supposed To Be A Democracy, Supposed To Be For Freedom And All Of That Kind Of Stuff When They Want To Draft You And Put You In The Army And Send You To Saigon To Fight For Them -- And Then You've Got To Turn Around And All Night Long Discuss How You're Going To Just Get A Right To Register And Vote Without Being Murdered. Why, That's The Most Hypocritical Government Since The World Began!

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

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

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

The Messenger Has Seen God. He Was With Allah And Was Given Divine Patience With The Devil. He Is Willing To Wait For Allah To Deal With This Devil. Well, Sir, The Rest Of Us Black Muslims Have Not Seen God, We Don't Have This Gift Of Divine Patience With The Devil. The Younger Black Muslims Want To See Some Action.

Western Interests: Imperialism, Colonialism, Exploitation, Racism, And Other Negative -isms.

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.

Thoughtful White People Know They Are Inferior To Black People.

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.

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.

If This Government Can Send 20 Billion Dollars To Latin America To Some Peasants Who Have Never Fought For This Country Or Worked For This Country Or Have - Or - And Is Sending Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars To Africa And Asia To Try And Buy Friendship Of People Who Will Never Be Friendly Toward Them, Then They Should Be Even More Quick To Spend Some - Whatever Amount Of Money Is Necessary To Get Inside Of Their House Straight, Before It's Too Late.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When The Whites Themselves Are Attacked, They Believe In Defending Themselves And Things Of That Sort.

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

History Is A People's Memory, And Without A Memory, Man Is Demoted To The Lower Animals.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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.

I Think The Black Man In America Wants To Be Recognized As A Human Being; And It's Almost Impossible For One Who Has Enslaved Another To Bring Himself To Accept The Person Who Used To Pull His Plow, Who Used To Be An Animal, Subhuman, Who Used To Be Considered As Such By Him-it's Almost Impossible For That Person In His Right Mind To Accept That Person As His Equal.

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.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says That If The - What Should Happen Is The Black Man Himself Should Learn How To Develop Himself, In The Same Sense That The White Man Has Developed Himself. Then They Can Both Come Together And Recognize Each Other As Equals.

We Are Nonviolent With People Who Are Nonviolent With Us.

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

Well, The White Race In America Is The Same Way. As Individuals It Is Impossible For Them To Escape The Collective Crime Committed Against The Negroes In This Country, Collectively.

If You Don't Stand For Something You Will Fall For Anything.

The Black People In This Country Are Taught That Their Religion And The Best Religion Is The Religion Of Islam, And When One Accepts The Religion Of Islam, He's Known As A Muslim.

Religion Of Islam

Among Negroes We Have Negroes Who Are As White As Some White People. Still There's A Difference.

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.

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.

As Long As You Are Convinced You Have Never Done Anything, You Can Never Do Anything.

A Segregated School System Produces Children Who, When They Graduate, They Do With Crippled Minds.

As Long As Negro Leader Is Making The White Man Think That Our People Are Satisfied To Sit In His House And Wait For Him To Correct These Conditions, He Is - He Is Misrepresenting The Thinking Of The Black Masses, And He's Doing The White Man A Disservice Because He's Making The White Man Be More Complacent Than He Would Be If He Knew The Dangerous Situation That Is Building Up Right Inside His Own House.

Dangerous Situations

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

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.

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

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

Soon Now, As The Negro Awakens A Little More And Sees The Vise That He's In, Sees The Bag That He's In, Sees The Real Game That He's In, Then The Negro's Going To Develop A New Tactic.

By Any Means Necessary.

You Negroes Are Not Willing To Admit It Yet, But Integration Will Not Work. Why, It Is Against The White Man's Nature To Integrate You Into His House.

[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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You Catch Any White Man Off Guard In Here Right Now, You Catch Him Off Guard And Ask Him What He Is, He Doesn't Say He's An American. He Either Tells You He's Irish, Or He's Italian, Or He's German, If You Catch Him Off Guard And He Doesn't Know What You're Up To. And Even Though He Was Born Here, He'll Tell You He's Italian. Well, If He's Italian, You And I Are African Even Though We Were Born Here.

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.

For The White Man To Ask The Black Man If He Hates Him Is Just Like The Rapist Asking The Raped, Or The Wolf Asking The Sheep, 'do You Hate Me?' The White Man Is In No Moral Position To Accuse Anyone Else Of Hate! Why, When All Of My Ancestors Are Snake-bitten, And I'm Snake-bitten, And I Warn My Children To Avoid Snakes, What Does That Snake Sound Like Accusing Me Of Hate-teaching?

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.

Growing Is The Result Of Learning.

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

No Religion Will Ever Make Me Forget The Condition Of Our People In This Country...no God, No Religion, No Nothing Will Make Me Forget It Until It Stops, Until It's Elimitnated. I Want To Make That Point Clear.

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

Dr Martin Luther King

To Me, Political Action Involves Making The Politician Who Represents Us Know That He Either Produces Or He Is Out, And He's Out One Way Or Another.

That Value System Has Been Handed Right Down In European Society. And Today When You Find Negroes, If They Even Look Like They're Adopting These So-called Middle-class Values, Standards, It's Not That They Are Taking Something From The White Man, But They Are Probably Identifying Again With The Level Or Standard That These Same Whites Have Gotten From Them Back During That Period.

Why Can't The Black Man Have A God? What's So Wrong When A Black Man Says His God Will Protect Him Form His White Foe? If Jehovah Can Slay Philistines For The Jews, Why Can't Allah Slay Crackers For The So-called Negro?

Any Time You Put Too Many Sparks Around A Powder Keg, The Thing Is Going To Explode, And If The Things That Explodes Is Still Inside The House, Then The House Will Be Destroyed.

[civil Right Leaders]themselves In Their Pronouncements Will Tell You They Need White Allies, They Need White Help, They Need White This.

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

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