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[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.

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Malcolm X

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[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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

I Think That The Best Thing That A Person Can Be Is Sincere.

You Have A Race Problem That Must Be Solved, Or Else You Will Alienate Every Non-white Person On This Earth Within The Next Few Years, Or Within The Next Few Months.

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.

The Economic Philosophy Of Black Nationalism Only Means That Our People Need To Be Re-educated Into The Importance Of Controlling The Economy Of The Community In Which We Live, Which Means That We Won't Have To Constantly Be Involved In Picketing And Boycotting Other People In Other Communities In Order To Get Jobs.

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

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.

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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.

Martin Luther King Has Made The Negro In America Unnatural.

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

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

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.

Thoughtful White People Know They Are Inferior To Black People.

I Was With Essien Udom In Nigeria.

You Don't Do Anything To Further Your Stay Aboard A Ship That You See Is Going To Go Down To The Bottom Of The Ocean.

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

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.

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

I Think The Only Way One Can Really Determine Whether Extremism In The Defense Of Liberty Is Justified, Is Not To Approach It As An American Or A European Or An African Or An Asian, But As A Human Being. If We Look Upon It As Different Types, Immediately We Begin To Think In Terms Of Extremism Being Good For One And Bad For Another, Or Bad For One And Good For Another. But If We Look Upon It, If We Look Upon Ourselves As Human Beings, I Doubt That Anyone Will Deny That Extremism In Defense Of Liberty, The Liberty Of Any Human Being, Is No Vice.

You Can't Hate The Roots Of A Tree And Not Hate The Tree.

In America You Have The Mouse Now Trying To Sit Down On The Elephant, Thinking That He's Going Somewhere. And It's - And It's Absurd.

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

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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.

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The Separating Of A Section Of America For Afro- Americans Is Similar To Expecting A Heaven In The Sky Somewhere After You Die.

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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.

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We Are Nonviolent With People Who Are Nonviolent With Us.

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For One To Control One's Thoughts And Feelings Means One Can Actually Control One's Atmosphere And All Who Walk Into Its Sphere Of Influence.

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.

Hatred And Anger Are Powerless When Met With Kindness.

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.

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

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

The Day That The Black Man Takes An Uncompromising Step And Realizes That He's Within His Rights, When His Own Freedom Is Being Jeopardized, To Use Any Means Necessary To Bring About His Freedom Or Put A Halt To That Injustice, I Don't Think He'll Be By Himself.

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

When You Hear Me Say "by Any Means Necessary," I Mean Exactly That. I Believe In Anything That Is Necessary To Correct Unjust Conditions-political, Economic, Social, Physical, Anything That Is Necessary.

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

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.

We Want Freedom By Any Means Necessary. We Want Justice By Any Means Necessary. We Want Equality By Any Means Necessary. We Don't Feel That In 1964, Living In A Country That Is Supposedly Based Upon Freedom, And Supposedly The Leader Of The Free World, We Don't Think That We Should Have To Sit Around And Wait For Some Segregationist Congressmen And Senators And A President From Texas In Washington, D.c., To Make Up Their Minds That Our People Are Due Now Some Degree Of Civil Rights. No, We Want It Now Or We Don't Think Anybody Should Have It.

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.

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I Believe In A Religion That Believes In Freedom. Any Time I Have To Accept A Religion That Won't Let Me Fight A Battle For My People, I Say To Hell With That Religion.

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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Integration Will Not Bring A Man Back From The Grave.

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

My Sincerity Is My Credentials.

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

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

I Refer To A Negro Politician As A Negro Who Is Selected By Negroes And Who Is Backed By Negroes.

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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.

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Just As The White Man And Every Other Person On This Earth Has God-given Rights, Natural Rights, Civil Rights, Any Kind Of Rights That You Can Think Of, When It Comes To Defending Himself, Black People - We Should Have The Right To Defend Ourselves Also.

In All Our Deeds, The Proper Value And Respect For Time Determines Success Or Failure.

If Violence Is Wrong In America, Violence Is Wrong Abroad. If It Is Wrong To Be Violent Defending Black Women And Black Children And Black Babies And Black Men, Then It Is Wrong For America To Draft Us And Make Us Violent Abroad In Defense Of Her. And If It Is Right For America To Draft Us, And Teach Us How To Be Violent In Defense Of Her, Then It Is Right For You And Me To Do Whatever Is Necessary To Defend Our Own People Right Here In This Country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Negro Revolution Is Controlled By Foxy White Liberals, By The Government Itself. But The Black Revolution Is Controlled Only By God.

This Is Why Integration Will Not Work. It Assumes That The Two Races, Black And White, Are Equal And Can Be Made To Live As One. This Is Not True.

Black And White

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.

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.

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.

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

History Rewards All Research. And History Fails To Record One Single Instance In Which The White Man - As A People - Did Good. They Have Always Been Devils; They Always Will Be Devils, And They Are About To Be Destroyed. The Final Proof That They Are Devils Lies In The Fact That They Are About To Destroy Themselves. Only A Devil - And A Stupid Devil At That - Would Destroy Himself!

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

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

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Betty's A Good Muslim Woman And Wife. I Don't Imagine Many Other Women Might Put Up With The Way I Am. Awakening This Brainwashed Black Man And Telling This Arrogant, Devilish White Man The Truth About Himself, Betty Understands, Is A Full-time Job

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?

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If [politician] Is Not Fulfilling His Function, They Then Can Set Up The Machinery To Remove Him From That Position By Whatever Means Necessary.

A Man Without Any History Is Like A Tree Without Roots

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.

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

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.

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

Nonviolence Is His, Is His Method. Well, My Objective Is The Same As [martin Luther] King's.

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

The Greatest Mistake Of The Movement Has Been Trying To Organize A Sleeping People Around Specific Goals. You Have To Wake The People Up First, Then You'll Get Action.

The Black Masses Want Not To Be Shrunk From As Though They Are Plague-ridden. They Want Not To Be Walled Up In Slums, In The Ghettos, Like Animals. They Want To Live In An Open, Free Society Where They Can Walk With Their Heads Up, Like Men, And Women! Few White People Realize That Many Black People Today Dislike And Avoid Spending More Time Than They Must About White People. This 'integration' Image, As It Is Popularly Interpreted, Has Millions Of Vain, Self-exalted White People Convinced That Black People Want To Sleep In Bed With Them - And That's A Lie!

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

The Mental Flexibility Of The Wise Man Permits Him To Keep An Open Mind And Enables Him To Readjust Himself Whenever It Becomes Necessary For A Change.

I Believe It's A Crime For Anyone Who Is Being Brutalized To Continue To Accept That Brutality Without Doing Something To Defend Himself.

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

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

I Think As An Intelligent Person You Would Agree That When You Are Teaching Among Oppressed People That They Should Be Relieved Of Their Oppression Not 100 Or 10 Years From Now, But Right Now, You're Going To Find Your Talk Is Going To Fall Upon Sympathetic Ears.

I Think That Abraham Lincoln Probably Did More To Trick Negroes Than Any Other Man In History.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Teaches Us To Get Away From The Devil As Soon And As Fast As We Can.

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.

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

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

You Get Your Freedom By Letting Your Enemy Know That You'll Do Anything To Get It. Then You'll Get It. It's The Only Way You'll Get It.

Now, The Black Man Here Was So-called Free By [abe] Lincoln 100 Years Ago. The Black Man In America Has An - Has A Purchasing Power Of 20 Billion Dollars. Now, And He's Educated.

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

When You Aren't Affiliated With Anything, And Then You Look At Something, You Look At It With Your Eye To The Best Of Your Ability.

The Same Rebellion, The Same Impatience, The Same Anger That Exists In The Hearts Of The Dark People In Africa And Asia Is Existing In The Hearts And Minds Of 20 Million Black People In This Country Who Have Been Just As Thoroughly Colonized As The People In Africa And Asia.

You're Going To Have A Racial Explosion, And A Racial Explosion Is More Dangerous Than An Atomic Explosion. It's Going To Explode Because Black People Are Dissatisfied; They're Dissatisfied Not Only With The White Man, But They're Dissatisfied With These Negroes Who Have Been Sitting Around Here Posing As Leaders And Spokesmen For Black People And Actually Making The Problem Worse Instead Of Making The Problem Better.

We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves... One Can't Unite Bananas With Scattered Leaves.

Yes, I'm An Extremist. The Black Race Here In North America Is In Extremely Bad Condition. You Show Me A Black Man Who Isn't An Extremist And I'll Show You One Who Needs Psychiatric Attention.

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

I Have Never Seen White People Who Would Sit, Who Would, Who Would Approach A Solution To Their Own Problems Nonviolently Or Passively. It's Only When They Are So-called "fighting For The Rights Of Negroes" That They Nonviolently, Passively, And Lovingly, You Know, Approach The Situation.

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'll Be The Ballot Or The Bullet. It'll Be Liberty Or It'll Be Death

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

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

No, I’m Not An American. I’m One Of The 22 Million Black People Who Are The Victims Of Americanism. One Of The … Victims Of Democracy, Nothing But Disguised Hypocrisy. So, I’m Not Standing Here Speaking To You As An American, Or A Patriot, Or A Flag-saluter, Or A Flag-waver - No, Not I. I’m Speaking As A Victim Of This American System. And I See America Through The Eyes Of The Victim. I Don’t See Any American Dream; I See An American Nightmare.

Revolutions Are Never Peaceful.

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?

The Most Disrespected Person In America Is The Black Woman. The Most Unprotected Person In America Is The Black Woman. The Most Neglected Person In America Is The Black Woman.

You'd Have Civil War. You'd Have A Race War In This Country.

The White Press Itself Created Civil Right Leaders.

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

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of Man, All Men, But I Don't Believe In Brotherhood With Anybody Who Doesn't Want Brotherhood With Me. I Believe In Treating People Right, But I'm Not Going To Waste My Time Trying To Treat Somebody Right Who Doesn't Know How To Return The Treatment.

At This Point I Hadn't Yet Gotten Deep Into The Historic Condition That Negroes In This Country Are Confronted With, But At That Point In My Prison Studies I, I Read, I Studied Islam As A Religion More So Than As I Later Come To Know It In Its Connection With The Plight Or Problem Of Negroes In This Country.

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.

There Is No Better Than Adversity. Every Defeat, Every Heartbreak, Every Loss, Contains Its Own Seed, Its Own Lesson On How To Improve Your Performance The Next Time.

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

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

I'm Inclined To Believe That Most Negro Leaders, Professional Negroes Are Professional Negroes. Being A Negro Is Their Professional, And Being A Profe - A Leader Is Their Profession. And Usually They Say Exactly What The White Man Wants - Wants To Hear Them Say.

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.

The Ability To Read Awoke Inside Of Me Some Long Dormant Craving To Be Mentally Alive.

It Is Only After The Deepest Darkness That The Greatest Light Can Come; It Is Only After Extreme Grief That The Greatest Joy Can Come.

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

Asking Questions

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.

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It’s Just Like When You’ve Got Some Coffee That’s Too Black, Which Means It’s Too Strong. What You Do? You Integrate It With Cream; You Make It Weak. If You Pour Too Much Cream In, You Won’t Even Know You Ever Had Coffee. It Used To Be Hot, It Becomes Cool. It Used To Be Strong, It Becomes Weak. It Used To Wake You Up, Now It’ll Put You To Sleep.

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.

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.

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

The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Make Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

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.

If A White Man Puts His Arm Around Me Voluntarily, That's Brotherhood.

Learn To See, Listen, And Think For Yourself.

Think For Yourself

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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