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Whoever Is Standing Up Telling The White Man That His Position Is Unjust And That The Black People Should Not Have To Wait For Any Supreme Court, Congress Or Senate To Legislate, Or Even The President To Issue Any Kind Of - Of A Proclamation To Better The Condition Of Our People, If A N - If He - If A, If A Negro Leader Is Standing Up, Making That Point Clear, Then He's All Right With Us.

-Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

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Whoever Is Standing Up Telling The White Man That His Position Is Unjust And That The Black People Should Not Have To Wait For Any Supreme Court, Congress Or Senate To Legislate, Or Even The President To Issue Any Kind Of - Of A Proclamation To Better The Condition Of Our People, If A N - If He - If A, If A Negro Leader Is Standing Up, Making That Point Clear, Then He's All Right With Us.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Same Thing That Uncle Tom Did On The Plantation Before [abe] Lincoln Issued The So-called Emancipation Proclamation.i Have No Thinking On The Matter. But He's Teaching The Black People To Suffer Peacefully, Patiently, Until The White Man Makes Up His Mind That You're A Human Being The Same As He.

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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?

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

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I'm A Field Negro. The Masses Are The Field Negroes. When They See This Man's House On Fire, You Don't Hear These Little Negroes Talking About 'our Government Is In Trouble'. They Say, 'the Government Is In Trouble.'

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

It Gives [a Man] The Incentive To Develop His Dormant Potential So That When He Becomes A Part Of The Brotherhood Of Islam, And Is Identified Collectively In The Brotherhood Of Islam With The Brothers In Islam, At The Same Time This Also Gives Him The, It Has The Psychological Effect Of Giving Him The Incentive As An Individual To Develop All Of His Dormant Potential To Its Fullest Extent.

Everything That Came Out Of Europe, Every Blue-eyed Thing, Is Already An American. And As Long As You And I Have Been Over Here, We Aren't Americans Yet.

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If You're Not Careful, The Newspapers Will Have You Hating The People Who Are Being Oppressed, And Loving The People Who Are Doing The Oppressing.

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Nobody Can Give You Freedom. Nobody Can Give You Equality Or Justice Or Anything. If You're A Man, You Take It.

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When You Go To A Church And You See The Pastor Of That Church With A Philosophy And A Program That's Designed To Bring Black People Together And Elevate Black People, Join That Church. Join That Church. If You See Where The Naacp Is Preaching And Practicing That Which Is Designed To Make Black Nationalism Materialize, Join The Naacp. Join Any Kind Of Organization, Civic, Religious, Fraternal, Political, Or Otherwise That's Based On Lifting The Black Man Up And Making Him Master Of His Own Community.

Any Way, Any Form Necessary To Defend Himself; Negro Should Reserve The Right To Do That Just The Same As Others Have The Right To Do It.

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

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.

Only The Mistakes Were Mine.

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

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The Press Is So Powerful In Its Image-making Role, It Can Make The Criminal Look Like He's A The Victim And Make The Victim Look Like He's The Criminal. This Is The Press, An Irresponsible Press. It Will Make The Criminal Look Like He's The Victim And Make The Victim Look Like He's The Criminal. If You Aren't Careful, The Newspapers Will Have You Hating The People Who Are Being Oppressed And Loving The People Who Are Doing The Oppressing.

I Mean A Real Police State Just To Get A Token Recognition Of A Law. It Take, It Took, I Think, 15,000 Troops And 6 Million Dollars To Put One Negro In The University Of Mississippi. That's A Police Action, Police State Action.

[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.

Every Morning When I Wake Up, Now, I Regard It As Having Another Borrowed Day.

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.

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New York White Youth Were Killing Victims; That Was A 'sociological' Problem. But When Black Youth Killed Somebody, The Power Structure Was Looking To Hang Somebody.

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.

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.

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Religion Of Islam

Abraham Lincoln Was Interested In, In Saving The Union. Well, Most Negroes Have Been Tricked Into Thinking That Lincoln Was A Negro Lover Whose Primary Aim Was To Free Them, And He Died Because He Freed Them.

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

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

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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.

It’ll Be The Ballot Or It’ll Be The Bullet. It’ll Be Liberty Or It’ll Be Death. And If You’re Not Ready To Pay That Price Don’t Use The Word Freedom In Your Vocabulary.

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Much Of What I Say Might Sound Bitter, But It's The Truth. Much Of What I Say Might Sound Like It's Stirring Up Trouble, But It's The Truth. Much Of What I Say Might Sound Like Its Hate, But It's The Truth

One Of The Main Things That I Read About It That Appealed To Me Was In Islam A Man Is Honored As A Human Being And Not Measured By The Color Of His Skin.

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

Once I Was, Yes. But Now I Have Turned My Direction Away From Anything That's Racist.

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

My Father Didn't Know His Real Name. My Father Got His Name From His Grandfather And He Got His Name From His Grandfather And He Got It From The Slave Master.

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

Speaking Like This Doesn't Mean That We're Anti-white, But It Does Mean We're Anti-exploitation, We're Anti-degradation, We're Anti-oppression.

Don't Be In A Hurry To Condemn Because He Doesn't Do What You Do Or Think As You Think Or As Fast. There Was A Time When You Didn't Know What You Know Today.

Only A Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children.

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library.

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Hating Yourself

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.

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

I Am And Always Will Be A Muslim. My Religion Is Islam.

All Of The Civil Rights Problems During The Past Years Have Created A Situation Where America Right Now Is Moving Toward A Police State. You Can't Have Anything Otherwise. So That's Your Supposition.

I Had Begun To Read Books And Things And, In Fact, One Of The Persons Who Started Me Thinking Seriously Was An Atheist That I, Another Negro Inmate Whom I'd Heard In A Discussion With White Inmates And Who Was Able To Hold His Own At All Levels. And He Impressed Me With His Knowledge, And I Began To Listen Very Carefully To Some Of The Things He Said.

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.

America Preaches Integration And Practices Segregation.

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.

Let's Cool It Brothers . . . Spoken To His Assassins, Three Men Who Stabbed Him 16 Times.

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.

As Long As The Factories Are In The Hands Of The Whites, The Housing Is In The Hands Of The Whites, The School System Is In The Hands Of The Whites, You Have A Situation Where The Blacks Are Constantly Begging The Whites Can They Use This Or Can They Use That. That's Not Any Kind Of Equality Of Opportunity, Nor Does It Lend Toward One's Dignity.

Here You Have 22 Million Afro-americans, Black People Today, Catching More Hell Than Patrick Henry Ever Saw. And I'm Here To Tell You, In Case You Don't Know It, That You Got A New - You Got A New Generation Of Black People In This Country, Who Don't Care Anything Whatsoever About Odds. They Don't Want To Hear You Old Uncle Tom Handkerchief Heads Talking About The Odds.

If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins Or Any Of These Compromising Negros Who Say Exactly What The White Man Wants To Hear Is Interviewed Anywhere In The Country You Don't Get Anybody To Offset What They Say. But Whenever A Black Man Stands Up And Says Something That White People Don't Like Then The First Thing That Man Does Is Run Around To Try And Find Somebody To Say Something To Offset What Has Just Been Said. This Is Natural But It Is Done.

We're All In The Same Boat And We All Are Going To Catch The Same Hell From The Same Man.

Power In Defense Of Freedom Is Greater Than Power In Behalf Of Tyranny And Oppression, Because Power, Real Power, Comes From Our Conviction Which Produces Action, Uncompromising Action.

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.

I Remember One Night At Muzdalifa With Nothing But The Sky Overhead I Lay Awake Amid Sleeping Muslim Brothers And I Learned That Pilgrims From Every Land--every Color, And Class, And Rank; High Officials And The Beggar Alike--all Snored In The Same Language.

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.

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

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

Instead Of The Negro Leaders Having The Black Man Begging For A Chance To - To Dine In White Restaurants, The Negro Leader Should Be Showing The Black Man How To Do Something To Strengthen His Own Economy.

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.

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

When We Send Our Children To School, They Learn Nothing About Us Other Than We Used To Be Cotton Pickers. Why, Your Grandfather Was Nat Turner; Your Grandfather Was Toussaint L'ouverture; Your Grandfather Was Hannibal. It Was Your Grandfather's Hands Who Forged Civilization And It Was Your Grandmother's Hands Who Rocked The Cradle Of Civilization. But The Textbooks Tell Our Children Nothing.

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

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

I Grew Up In The Country On A Farm It Was Whenever Someone Said Even That A Snake Was Eating The Chickens Or Bothering The Chickens, We'd Kill Snakes. We Never Knew Whether That Was The Snake That Did It.

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 Don't Mean Go Out And Get Violent; But At The Same Time You Should Never Be Nonviolent Unless You Run Into Some Nonviolence. I'm Nonviolent With Those Who Are Nonviolent With Me. But When You Drop That Violence On Me, Then You've Made Me Go Insane, And I'm Not Responsible For What I Do.

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

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 Short-range Involves The Long-range. Immediate Steps Have To Be Taken To Reeducate Our People Into The, A More Real View Of Political, Economic, And Social Conditions In This Country, And Our Ability In, In A Self- Improvement Program To Gain Control Politically Over Every Community In Which We Predominate, And Also Over The Economy Of That Same Community As Here In Harlem. Instead Of All The Stores In Harlem Being Owned By White People, They Should Be Owned And Operated By Black People.

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

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

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

Dr Martin Luther King

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

Until The Image Of The Black Man In The Mind Of The Black Man Has Been Changed, There Will Always Be Delinquency, Parental And Juvenile. The Idea Is Not To Change The Attitude Of The White Man To The Black Man But To Change The Attitude Of The Black Man To Himself.

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.

Education Is The Passport To The Future, For Tomorrow Belongs To Those Who Prepare For It Today.

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.

[people] Earn Extra Money [in Prison] Selling Contraband, Dope, And Things Of That Sort To The Inmates, And So That Really It's An Exploiter.

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

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.

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

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

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

A Negro Just Can't Be Whipped By Somebody White And Return With His Head Up In The Neighborhood, Especially In Those Days, When Sports And, To A Lesser Extent Show Business, Were The Only Fields Open To Negroes, And When The Ring Was The Only Place A Negro Could Whip A White Man And Not Be Lynched.

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.

There Seems In Most Countries To Be Either One Extreme Or The Other. Truly A Paradise Could Exist Wherever Material Progress And Spiritual Values Could Be Properly Balanced.

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.

I Am Not A Republican, Nor A Democrat, Nor An American, And Got Sense Enough To Know It. I Am One Of The 22 Million Black Victims Of The Democrats, And One Of The 22 Million Black Victims Of The Republicans, And One Of The 22 Million Black Victims Of Americanism... You And I Have Never Seen Democracy; All We've Seen Is Hypocracy... If You Go To Jail, So What? If You're Black, You Were Born In Jail. If You're Black, You Were Born In Jail, In The North As Well As The South. Stop Talking About The South. Long As You South Of The Canadian Border, You're South.

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?

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 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.

What You Did To One, You Did To All. So They Couldn't Have That Type Of Religion Being Taught In The Prison.

If It's Necessary To Form A Black Nationalist Army, We'll Form A Black Nationalist Army. It'll Be Ballot Or The Bullet. It'll Be Liberty Or It'll Be Death.

Anytime There's A Fire In A Negro Community And It's Burning Out Of Control, You Send Any One Of Them, Send Whitney Young In To Put It Out.

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.

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.

In My Opinion, Mature Political Action Is The Type Of Action That That Involves A Program Of Re-education And Information That Will Enable The Black People In The Black Community To See The Fruits That They Should Be Receiving From The Politicians Who Are Over Them And, Thereby, They Are Then Able To Determine Whether Or Not The Politician Is Really Fulfilling His Function.

Without Education, You Are Not Going Anywhere In This World.

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

Stumbling Is Not Falling.

Integration Is The Method Toward Obtaining That Goal. And What He Negro Leader Has Done Is Gotten Himself Wrapped Up In The Method And Has Forgotten What The Goal Is.

We Must Establish All Over The Country Schools Of Our Own To Train Our Own Children To Become Scientists, To Become Mathematicians. We Must Realize The Need For Adult Education And For Job Retraining Programs That Will Emphasize A Changing Society In Which Automation Plays The Key Role. We Intend To Use The Tools Of Education To Help Raise Our People To An Unprecedented Level Of Excellence And Self Respect Through Their Own Efforts.

The Government Is Responsible For The Violence, As Long As They Don't Stop It. And If We Have To Get Violent To Protect Ourselves, Then It's The Government That Should Be Charged With The Crime, Because We're Only Upholding A Law That They've Been Unable To Uphold.

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

When I Was In Prison, I Read An Article - Don't Be Shocked When I Say I Was In Prison. You're Still In Prison. That's What America Means: Prison.

It's Hard For Anyone Intelligent To Be Nonviolent. Everything In The Universe Does Something When You Start Playing With His Life, Except The American Negro. He Lays Down And Says, 'beat Me, Daddy.'

Anytime Anyone Is Enslaved Or In Any Way Deprived Of His Liberty, That Person, As A Human Being, As Far As I'm Concerned He Is Justified To Resort To Whatever Methods Necessary To Bring About His Liberty Again.

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

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.

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.

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