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You Don't Disarm Any White Community By Confining Yourself To Any Particular Method. If You Want Freedom, Then You Should Get Freedom Like Patrick Henry Said, By Whatever Method Is Necessary.

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You Don't Disarm Any

Malcolm X

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You Don't Disarm Any White Community By Confining Yourself To Any Particular Method. If You Want Freedom, Then You Should Get Freedom Like Patrick Henry Said, By Whatever Method Is Necessary.

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If All The White People Who Claim They Don't Hate Us Would Ever Get Together And Do Something To The Whites Who Claim They Hate Us, We'd See Some Action. Talk Is Cheap, If White People Didn't Want To Have A South African Situation ... There'd Be None. If White People In America Didn't Want Segregation, There'd Be None ... It Is The Man Who Allows Him To Lynch Who Is Never Seen.

What Does A Black Man Look Like Begging For A Cup Of Coffee In A White Restaurant, And Doesn't Have A Job To Back Up His - To Pay For It When, When - When He Does Get The Coffee? It's Putting The Cart Before The Horse.

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When The People Who Are In Power Want To Use Again, Create An Image, To Justify Something That's Bad, They Use The Press. And They'll Use The Press To Create A Humanitarian Image, For A Devil, Or A Devil Image For A Humanitarian. They'll Take A Person Who's A Victim Of The Crime, And Make It Appear He's The Criminal, And They'll Take The Criminal And Make It Appear That He's The Victim Of The Crime.

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

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

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Now The White Man's Time Is Over. Tokenism Will Not Help Him, And It Will Doom Us. Complete Separation Will Save Us - And Who Knows, It Might Make God Decide To Give The White Devil A Few More Years.

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I'm Not Going To Sit At Your Table And Watch You Eat, With Nothing On My Plate, And Call Myself A Diner. Sitting At The Table Doesn't Make You A Diner.

African American

God Now Is About To Establish A Kingdom On This Earth Based Upon Brotherhood And Peace, And The White Man Is Against Brotherhood And The White Man Is Against Peace. His History On This Earth Has Proved That.

When I Am Dead--i Say It That Way Because From The Things I Know, I Do Not Expect To Live Long Enough To Read This Book In Its Finished Form--i Want You To Just Watch And See If I'm Not Right In What I Say: That The White Man, In His Press, Is Going To Identify Me With "hate". He Will Make Use Of Me Dead, As He Has Made Use Of Me Alive, As A Convenient Symbol, Of "hatred"--and That Will Help Him Escape Facing The Truth That All I Have Been Doing Is Holding Up A Mirror To Reflect, To Show, The History Of Unspeakable Crimes That His Race Has Committed Against My Race.

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The Black People Of America Have Been Victims Of Violence At The Hands Of The White Men For Four Hundred Years, And Following The Ignorant Negro Preachers, We Have Thought That It Was Godlike To Turn The Other Cheek To The Brute That Was Brutalizing Us.

Well, My Contention Is That The Political System Of This Country Is So Designed Criminally To Prevent This, That If The Black Man Even Started In That Direction, Which Is A Mature Step And It's The Only Way To Really Solve This Problem And To Prove That He Is The Intellectual Equal Of Others, Why, The Racists And The Segregationists Would Fight That Harder Than They're Fighting The Present Efforts To Integrate.

Any Time A Negro Community Lives Under Fear That Its Churches Are Going To Be Bombed, Then They Have To Realize They're Living In A War Zone.

In Order For A Man To Really Understand Himself He Must Be Part Of A Nation; He Must Have Some Land Of His Own, A God Of His Own, A Language Of His Own. Most Of All He Must Have Love And Devotion For His Own Kind.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A Wise Man Can Play The Part Of A Clown, But A Clown Can't Play The Part Of A Wise Man.

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.

If The So-called 'christianity' Now Being Practiced In America Displays The Best That World Christianity Has Left To Offer - No One In His Right Mind Should Need Any Much Greater Proof That Very Close At Hand Is The End Of Christianity.

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.

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.

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

[ 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.

[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.

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.

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

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

The Government Is Responsible For What Is Happening To Black People In America.

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?

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.

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.

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

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Says Number One, [negro] Must Know - Have A Knowledge Of Himself. And This Gives Him Confidence In Himself. He - He Has Been Brainwashed By The Educational System That Exists Here In America To The Point Where He Feels He Was A Savage In The Jungle When He Was - Before He Was Brought Here. And This Destroys His Morale.

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.

The American Negro Has Been Entirely Brainwashed From Ever Seeing Or Thinking Of Himself, As He Should, As A Part Of The Non-white Peoples Of The World.

We Black Men Have A Hard Enough Time In Our Own Struggle For Justice, And Already Have Enough Enemies As It Is, To Make The Drastic Mistake Of Attacking Each Other And Adding More Weight To An Already Unbearable Load.

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.

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.

In My Recent Travels Into African Countries And Others, I Was Impressed By The Importance Of Having A Working Unity Among All Peoples, Black As Well As White.

Right Now, In Every Big City Ghetto, Tens Of Thousands Of Yesterday's And Today's School Dropouts Are Keeping Body And Soul Together By Some Form Of Hustling In The Same Way I Did.

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.

I Want To Be Remembered As Someone Who Was Sincere. Even If I Made Mistakes, They Were Made In Sincerity. If I Was Wrong, I Was Wrong In Sincerity.

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.

I Might Add How In The World Can You Say, Or Can Anyone Say, That It Will Dignify The American Negro To Beg In Or Wade [?] In Or Plead In When The People In Hungary Didn't Beg In? They Were Freedom Fighters. And They Fought For Their Freedom.

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.

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.

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

... Any County's Moral Strength, Or Its Moral Weakness, Is Quickly Measurable By The Street Attire And Attitude Of Its Women - Especially Its Young Women. Wherever ... Spiritual Values Have Been Submerged, If Not Destroyed, By An Emphasis Upon ... Material Things, Invariably The Women Reflect It.

At The Same Time Reverend Galamison Policy Is Intelligent Enough Where He Can't Be Used To Attack Me.

Revolution Is Always Based On Land. Revolution Is Never Based On Begging Somebody For An Integrated Cup Of Coffee.

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?

I Believe In Islam. I Am A Muslim And There Is Nothing Wrong With Being A Muslim, Nothing Wrong With The Religion Of Islam. It Just Teaches Us To Believe In Allah As The God. Those Of You Who Are Christian Probably Believe In The Same God, Because I Think You Believe In The God Who Created The Universe. That's The One We Believe In, The One Who Created Universe - The Only Difference Being You Call Him God And We Call Him Allah. The Jews Call Him Jehovah. If You Could Understand Hebrew, You Would Probably Call Him Jehovah Too. If You Could Understand Arabic, You Would Probably Call Him Allah.

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.

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.

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

The Only Way The Two Can Have Equal Job Opportunities Is If Black People Have Factories As, As Well As White People Have Factories.

History Is Not Hatred.

I Don't Have Any Hate. I've Got Some Sense. I'm Not Going To Let Anybody Who Hates Me Tell Me To Love Him. I'm Not That Way-out.

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.

I'm For Truth, No Matter Who Tells It. I'm For Justice, No Matter Who It Is For Or Against. I'm A Human Being, First And Foremost, And As Such I'm For Whoever And Whatever Benefits Humanity As A Whole.

White Individuals That Have Been Going To Jail. Segregation Still Exists; Discrimination Still Exists. A Few Isolated White People Whose Individual Acts Are Designed To Eliminate This, That Or, Or The Next Thing But, Yet, It Is Never Eliminated Is In No Way Impressive To Me.

I Believe In The Brotherhood Of All Men, But I Don't Believe In Wasting Brotherhood On Anyone Who Doesn't Want To Practice It With Me. Brotherhood Is A Two-way Street.

Brotherhood Of Man

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.

Since The White People Collectively Have Practiced The Worst Form Of Hatred Against Negroes In America And They Know That They Are Guilty Of It, Now When The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Comes Along And Begins To List The Historic Deed - The Historic Attitude, The Historic Behavior Of The White Man In This Country Toward The Black People In This Country, Again, The White People Are So Guilty And They Can't Stop Doing These Things To Make Mr. Muhammad Appear To Be Wrong, So They Hide Their Wrong By Saying "he Is Teaching Hatred."

In The Past, Yes, I Have Made Sweeping Indictments Of All White People. I Never Will Be Guilty Of That Again - As I Know Now That Some White People Are Truly Sincere, That Some Truly Are Capable Of Being Brotherly Toward A Black Man. The True Islam Has Shown Me That A Blanket Indictment Of All White People Is As Wrong As When Whites Made Blanket Indictments Against Blacks.

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.

In Harlem, For Instance, All Of The Stores Are Owned By White People, All Of The Buildings Are Owned By White People. The Black People Are Just There - Paying Rent, Buying The Groceries; But They Don't Own The Stores, Clothing Stores, Food Stores, Any Kind Of Stores; Don't Even Own The Homes That They Live In. They Are All Owned By Outsiders, And For These Run-down Apartment Dwellings, The Black Man In Harlem Pays More Money Than The Man Down In The Rich Park Avenue Section.

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!

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.

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

Whereas The Only Real Solution To The Race Problem In This Country Is A Solution That Involves Individual Self Improvement And Collective Self Improvement In, Whereas Our Own, Wherein Our Own People Are Concerned.

Be Peaceful, Be Courteous, Obey The Law, Respect Everyone; But If Someone Puts His Hand On You, Send Him To The Cemetery.

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.

The Religious Philosophy That They Had Adopted, In My Opinion, Was The Only Thing And Is The Only Thing That Can Remove The White From The Mind Of The White Man And The Negro From The Mind Of The Negro. I Have Seen What Islam Has Done With Our People, Our People Who Had This Feeling Of Negro - And It Had A Psychological Effect Of Putting Them In A Mental Prison.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

No Black Person Married To A White Person Can Speak For Me!

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

Only Those Who Have Already Experienced A Revolution Within Themselves Can Reach Out Effectively To Help Others.

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

When 'i' Replaced With 'we', Even The Illness Becomes Wellness.

Most Of These Other Negro Leaders Who Are Supposedly Integrationists Aren't That Intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

Time Is On The Side Of The Oppressed Today, It's Against The Oppressor. Truth Is On The Side Of The Oppressed Today, It's Against The Oppressor. You Don't Need Anything Else.

To The Same Degree That Your Understanding Of And Attitude Toward Afrika Become Positive, You'll Find That Your Understanding Of And Your Attitude Toward Yourself Will Also Become Positive.

You Don't Stick A Knife In A Man's Back Nine Inches And Then Pull It Out Six Inches And Say You're Making Progress ... No Matter How Much Respect, No Matter How Much Recognition, Whites Show Towards Me, As Far As I Am Concerned, As Long As It Is Not Shown To Everyone Of Our People In This Country, It Doesn't Exist For Me.

During The Past Eleven Days Here In The Muslim World, I Have Eaten From The Same Plate, Drunk From The Same Glass, And Slept On The Same Rug - While Praying To The Same God - With Fellow Muslims, Whose Eyes Were The Bluest Of Blue, Whose Hair Was The Blondest Of Blond, And Whose Skin Was The Whitest Of White. And In The Words And In The Deeds Of The White Muslims, I Felt The Same Sincerity That I Felt Among The Black African Muslims Of Nigeria, Sudan And Ghana.

Any Time The Negro Becomes Involved In Mature Political Action, Then The Resistance Of The Politicians Who Benefit From The Exploited Political System As It Now Stands Will Be Forced To Put, Exercise More Violent Action To Deprive The Negro Of His Mature Political Action.

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

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

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

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.

If Christianity Had Asserted Itself In Germany, Six Million Jews Would Have Lived.

All Over This World People Are Standing Up For Freedom.

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.

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

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

While I Was In Prison, I Was Indulging In All Types Of Vice, Right Within The Prison. And I Never Was Ostracized As Much By The Penal Authorities While I Was Participating In All Of The Evils Of The Prison, As They Tried To Ostracize Me After I Became A Muslim.

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.

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

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