Background Image

...

You Don't Have A Revolution In Which You Love Your Enemy, And You Don't Have A Revolution In Which You Are Begging The System Of Exploitation To Integrate You Into It. Revolutions Overturn Systems. Revolutions Destroy Systems.

-Malcolm X

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

You Don't Have A

Malcolm X

...

You Don't Have A Revolution In Which You Love Your Enemy, And You Don't Have A Revolution In Which You Are Begging The System Of Exploitation To Integrate You Into It. Revolutions Overturn Systems. Revolutions Destroy Systems.

Views: 86949

Topic

More From Malcolm X

There Can Be No Black-white Unity Until There Is First Some Black Unity... We Cannot Think Of Uniting With Others, Until After We Have First United Among Ourselves. We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

I Know That I Will Not Die Until My Time Comes.

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.

Forget The Methods Or The Differences In Methods. As Long As We Agree That The Thing That The Afro-american Wants And Needs Is Recognition And Respect As A Human Being.

America Has Allowed White People To Kill And Brutalize Those They Don't Like.

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.

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

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.

You Know, If Ever There Was A People Who Should Know How To Practice Brotherhood, It Is The American Negro And It Is The People Of Egypt.

I Don't Care How Nice One Is To You, The Thing You Must Always Remember Is That Almost Never Does He Really See You As He Sees Himself, As He Sees His Own Kind.

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

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.

Anybody Who Rapes, And Plunders, And Enslaves, And Steals, And Drops Hell Bombs On People... Anybody Who Does These Things Is Nothing But A Devil.

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

I Have Rarely Talked To Anyone About My Mother, For I Believe That I Am Capable Of Killing A Person, Without Hesitation, Who Happened To Make The Wrong Kind Of Remark About My Mother. So I Purposely Don't Make Any Opening For Some Fool To Step Into.

It Takes Two To Tango; When I Go, You Go.

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.

I Admire The, The Stand Of China And The Stand Of Mao Tse- Tung, But I Can't Admire With Respect The Stand Of, Of Nehru In India. I Just Can't Do It.

Adam Clayton Powell's Entire Political Career Has To Be Looked At In The Entire Context Of The American History And The History Of, And The Position Of The Afro- American Or Negro In American History. [he] Has Done A Remarkable Job In Fighting For Rights Of Black People In This Country. On The Other Hand, He Probably Hasn't Done As Much As He Could Or As Much As He Should Because He Is The Most Independent Negro Politician In This Country.

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.

My Contention Is That If You Trace It Back, It Was The People Of The East Who Brought Them Out Of The Dark Ages, Who Brought About The Period, Or Ushered In Or Initiated The Atmosphere That Brought Into Europe The Period Known As The Renaissance.

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

The Prison Systems In This Country Actually Are Exploitative And They Are Not In Any Way Rehabilitative.

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

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 Don't Believe In Any Form Of Unjustified Extremism! But When A Man Is Exercising Extremism -- A Human Being Is Exercising Extremism -- In Defense Of Liberty For Human Beings It's No Vice, And When One Is Moderate In The Pursuit Of Justice For Human Beings I Say He Is A Sinner.

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

The Thing That Has Made The So-called Negro In America Fail, More Than Any Other Thing, Is Your, My, Lack Of Knowledge Concerning History. We Know Less About History Than Anything Else.

First I Might Say That When A Person, When A Man Separates From His Wife, At The Out Start It's A Physical Separation But It's Not A Psychological Separation. He Still Thinks Of Her In, In Probably Warm Terms. And, But After The Physical Separation Has Taken, Existed For A Period Of Time, It Becomes A Psychological Separation As Well As Physical. And He Can Then Look At Her More Objectively. My Split Or Separation From The Black Muslim Movement At First Was Only A Physical Separation, But My Heart Was Still There And It Was Impossible For Me To, For Me To Look At It Objectively.

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 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.

Respect Me, Or Put Me To Death.

I Don't Think That The Objective Of The American Negro Is White Middle-class Values Because What Are White Middle-class Values?

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.

In Stating That The Idea Of A Separate State Is Not Practical, I'm Also Stating That The Idea Of Integration, Forced Integration, As They've Been Making An Effort To Do In This Country For The Past Years, Is Also Just As Impractical.

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!

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.

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Makes Black People Brave Enough, Men Enough To Defend Ourselves No Matter What The Odds Are, The White Man Runs Around Here With A Doctrine That Mr. Muhammad Is Advocating The Violence When He Is Actually Telling Negroes To Defend Themselves Against Violent People.

They Tell Us We Are All Citizens, That We Were Born In This Country. Well, A Cat Can Have Kittens In The Oven, But That Doesn't Make Them Biscuits!

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.

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

Even As A Muslim Minister In The Muslim Movement, I Have Always Said That I Would Work With Any Organization.

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.

The British Empire Was So Vast And So Powerful, The Sun Would Never Set On It. This Is How Big It Was, Yet These 13 Little Scrawny States, Tired Of Taxation Without Representation, Tired Of Being Exploited And Oppressed And Degraded, Told That Big British Empire, Liberty Or Death.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Our Objective Is Complete Freedom, Justice And Equality By Any Means Necessary.

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.

I Asked Inmate In New York, Warden Fay At That Time If, If It Didn't Make A Better Inmate Out Of The Negroes Who Accepted It And He Said, "yes." So I Asked Him Then What Was It About It That He Considered To Be So Danger, And He, Dangerous, And He Pointed Out That It Was The Cohesiveness That It Produced Among The Inmates. They Stuck Together.

Integration Will Not Bring A Man Back From The Grave.

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 Mother Is The First Teacher Of The Child. The Message She Gives That Child, That Child Gives To The World.

Just As Uncle Tom, Back During Slavery Used To Keep The Negroes From Resisting The Bloodhound Or Resisting The Ku Klux Klan By Teaching Them To Love Their Enemies Or Pray For Those Who Use Them Despitefully, Today Martin Luther King Is Just A Twentieth-century Or Modern Uncle Tom Or Religious Uncle Tom, Who Is Doing The Same Thing Today To Keep Negroes Defenseless In The Face Of Attack That Uncle Tom Did On The Plantation To Keep Those Negroes Defenseless In The Face Of The Attack Of The Klan In That Day.

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.

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

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

We Won't Organize Any Black Man To Be A Democrat Or A Republican Because Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out. Both Of Them Have Sold Us Out; Both Parties Have Sold Us Out. Both Parties Are Racist, And The Democratic Party Is More Racist Than The Republican Party.

Why Am I As I Am? To Understand That Of Any Person, His Whole Life, From Birth Must Be Reviewed. All Of Our Experiences Fuse Into Our Personality. Everything That Ever Happened To Us Is An Ingredient.

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.

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.

If Someone Puts Their Hands On You Make Sure They Never Put Their Hands On Anybody Else Again.

Police Violence

Police Brutality

Those Who Would Hunt A Man Need To Remember That A Jungle Also Contains Those Who Hunt The Hunters.

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

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

If The Black Man Is Allowed To Separate And Go Into Some Land Of His Own Where He Can Solve His Own Problems, There Won't Be Any Explosion, And The Negroes Who Want To Stay With The White Man, Let Them Stay With The White Man - But Those Who Want To Leave, Let Them Go To The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

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

Martin Luther King Has Taken Away From The Negro His Gov-given Right To Defend Himself.

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.

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.

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.

No, We Are Not Anti-white. But We Don't Have Time For The White Man. The White Man Is On Top Already, The White Man Is The Boss Already ... He Has First-class Citizenship Already. So You Are Wasting Your Time Talking To The White Man. We Are Working On Our Own People.

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

Look At Yourselves. Some Of You Teenagers, Students. How Do You Think I Feel And I Belong To A Generation Ahead Of You - How Do You Think I Feel To Have To Tell You, 'we, My Generation, Sat Around Like A Knot On A Wall While The Whole World Was Fighting For Its Hum An Rights - And You've Got To Be Born Into A Society Where You Still Have That Same Fight.' What Did We Do, Who Preceded You ? I'll Tell You What We Did. Nothing. And Don't You Make The Same Mistake We Made.

An Integrated Cup Of Coffee Isn't Sufficient Pay For Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor.

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.

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.

I've Never Seen A Sincere White Man, Not When It Comes To Helping Black People. Usually Things Like This Are Done By White People To Benefit Themselves. The White Man's Primary Interest Is Not To Elevate The Thinking Of Black People, Or To Waken Black People, Or White People Either. The White Man Is Interested In The Black Man Only To The Extent That The Black Man Is Of Use To Him. The White Man's Interest Is To Make Money, To Exploit.

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

After Four Hundred Years Of Slave Labor, We Have Some Back Pay Coming, A Bill Owed To Us That Must Be Collected.

African American

We Were Truly All The Same (brothers) - Because Their Belief In One God Had Removed The White From Their Minds, The White From Their Behavior, And The White From Their Attitude.

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.

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

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.

Only The Mistakes Were Mine.

They're Not Leading Our People Toward Any Kind Of Independence, But They're Using Their Positions And Their Education And Their Talent To Exploit Our People Worse Than The Slave Master Did During Slavery.

Essien Udom Is A Nigerian. At Present He's A Professor At Ibadan University.

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

I Think That Any Black Man Who Teaches Black People To Turn The Other Cheek And Suffer Peacefully After They've Been Turning The Cheek And Suffering Peacefully For 400 Years In A Land Of Bondage, Under The Most Cruel, Inhuman And Wicked Slavemaster That Any People Have Ever Been Under, He Is Doing Those People An Injustice, And He's A Traitor To His Own People.

History Is Not Hatred.

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.

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.

America Is A White Man's Country.

My Beliefs Are Now One Hundred Percent Against Racism And Segregation In Any Form And I Also Believe That We Don't Judge A Person By The Color Of His Skin But Rather By His Deeds.

Once Negro Community Recognize It As Such, They Can Adopt The Same Measures Against The Community That Harbors The Criminals Who Are Responsible For This Activity.

Always That "if" Was There, Which Meant That The One Who Was Doomed Could Avoid The Doom If He Would Change His Way Of Behaving.

By Looking Upon Themselves As Human Beings, Their Whiteness To Them Isn't The Yardstick Of Perfection Or Honor Or Anything Else. And, Therefore, This Creates Within Them An Attitude That Is Different From The Attitude Of The White That You Meet Here In America, And It Was In Mecca That I Realized That White Is Actually An Attitude More So Than It's A Color.

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

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.

I Had Blind Faith In Him. My Faith In Elijah Muhammad Was More Blind And More Uncompromising Than Any Faith That Any Man Has Ever Had For Another Man. And So I Didn't Try And See Him As He Actually Was.

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.

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.

A Cat That's Inside Of Your House That Is Angry And Dissatisfied And Hostile Is More Dangerous To You Than A Full-grown Lion Is On The Outside.

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 Bitter. Remember Lot's Wife When They Kill Me, And They Surely Will. You Have To Use All Of Your Energy To Do What It Is You Have To Do. [to His Wife Betty Shabazz]

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.

Only Time [jf] Kennedy Made Any, Took Any Action To Even Look Like He Identified With Negroes Was When He Was Forced To. Kennedy Didn't Even Make His Speech Based On This Problem Being A Moral Issue Until Negroes Exploded In Birmingham.

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.

I Believe That There Will Be Ultimately Be A Clash Between The Oppressed And Those Who Do The Oppressing. I Believe That There Will Be A Clash Between Those Who Want Freedom, Justice And Equality For Everyone And Those Who Want To Continue The System Of Exploitation. I Believe That There Will Be That Kind Of Clash, But I Don't Think It Will Be Based On The Color Of The Skin.

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.

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.

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

The Most Unprotected Person In America Is The Black Woman.

I Have Been Blessed To Visit The Holy City Of Mecca.

This Religion (islam) Recognizes All Men As Brothers. It Accepts All Human Beings As Equals Before God, And As Equal Members In The Human Family Of Mankind.

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.

America's Greatest Crime Against The Black Man Was Not Slavery Or Lynching, But That He Was Taught To Wear A Mask Of Self-hate And Self-doubt.

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.

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.

My Family Was So Poor We Were Close To Eating The Holes Inside Of Doughnuts.

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.

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

The White Man Is Going To Keep You Integration-minded Negroes Cooped Up Here In America, And When You Discover That The White Man Is A Trickster, A Devil, That He Has No Intentions Of Integrating, Then You Negroes Will Run Wild.

They Came Up With A Civil Rights Bill In 1964, Supposedly To Solve Our Problem, And After The Bill Was Signed, Three Civil Rights Workers Were Murdered In Cold Blood. And The Fbi Head, Hoover, Admits That They Know Who Did It, They've Known Ever Since It Happened, And They've Done Nothing About It. Civil Rights Bill Down The Drain.

The American System Itself Is Incapable. It Is As Incapable Of Producing Freedom For The Afro-american As The System Of A Chicken Is Of Producing A Duck Egg.

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.

Religion Of Islam

When You Have Your Own Bus, Then You Have Dignity. When You Have Your Own School, You Have Dignity. When You Have Your Own Country, You Have Dignity.when You Have Something Of Your Own, You Have Dignity. But Whenever You Are Begging For A Chance To Participate In That Which Belongs To Someone Else, Or Use That Which Belongs To Someone Else, On An Equal Basis With The Owner, That's Not Dignity. That's Ignorance.

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

The Negro's So-called 'revolt' Is Merely An Asking To Be Accepted Into The Existing System!

If The Various Groups In America Had Been Less Selfish And Had Permitted Different Representatives From The Groups To Travel Into Foreign Countries, And Broaden Their Own Scope, And Come Back And Educate The Movements They Represented, Not Only Would This Have Made The Groups To Which They Belonged More Enlightened And More Worldly In The International Sense, But It Also Would Have Given The Independent African States Abroad A Better Understanding Of The Groups In The United States, And What They Stand For, What They Represent.

How Can A Negro Say America Is His Nation? He Was Brought Here In Chains; He Was Put In Slavery An Worked Like A Mule For Three Hundred Years; He Was Separated From His Land, His Culture, His God, His Language!

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.

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.

The White Man Is A Devil. If He Is Not A Devil, Let Him Prove 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.

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

Read Absolutely Everything You Get Your Hands On Because You'll Never Know Where You'll Get An Idea From.

I Was Going Through The Hardest Thing, Also The Greatest Thing, For Any Human Being To Do; To Accept That Which Is Already Within You, And Around You.

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

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.

[islam] Is Not Measured By The Color Of His Skin.

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

Those Who Stay Here Can Help Those Who Go Back, And Those Who Go Back Can Help Those Who Stay Here In The Same Way That When Jews Go To Israel, The Jews In America Help Those In Israel And The Jews In Israel Help Those In America.

Today We Have A Modern Belshazzar And A Modern Pharaoh Sitting In Washington D.c.

I'm Not A Republican, Nor A Democrat, Nor An American, And Got Sense Enough To Know It.

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

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.'

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.

It Is The Attitude Of The American White Man That Is Making Him Stand Condemned Today Before The Eyes Of The Entire Dark World And Even Before The Eyes Of The Europeans. It Is His Attitude, His Haughty, Holier-than-thou Attitude.

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.

It's Easy. [black Man] Is - He's Separate Already. The Fact That You Have Harlem, The Fact That You Have The Negro Ghetto And The So-called Negro Slum, He's Already Separate.

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

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.

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.

The Goal Of Martin Luther King Is To Get The Negroes To Forgive The People The People Who Have Brutalized Them For Four Hundred Years, By Lulling Them To Sleep And Making Them Forget What Those Whites Have Done To Them, But The Masses Of Black People Today Don't Go For What Martin Luther King Is Putting Down.

Ralph Bunche, Who Is An Internationally Recognized And Respected Diplomat, Can't Stay In A Hotel In Georgia, Which Means That No Matter What The Accomplishment, The Intellectual, The Academic, Or Professional Level Of A Negro Is, Collectively He Stands Condemned.

We Are Nonviolent With People Who Are Nonviolent With 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.

Since The Main Problem That American, The Afro- Americans Have Is A Lack Of Cultural Identity. It Is Necessary To Teach [people] That They Had Some Type Of Identity, Culture, Civilization Before They Were Brought Here.

Foreign Diplomats Could Have Modeled Their Conduct On The Way The Negro Postmen, Pullman Porters, And Dining Car Waiters Of Roxbury [massachusetts] Acted, Striding Around As If They Were Wearing Top Hats And Cutaways.

God Is More Lasting Than The White Man.

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

The Price Of Freedom Is Death.

Price Of Freedom

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.

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.

Only A Fool Would Let His Enemy Teach His Children.

You Can't Have Capitalism Without Racism.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Some Things Are Better Done Than Said.

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.

[at A Young Age] I Had Learned Enough About Women To Know Not To Pressure Them When They're Thinking Something Out; They'll Tell You When They're Ready.

What Martin Luther King Is Doing Is Disarming The Black People Of America Of Their God-given Right And Of Their Natural Right.

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.

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.

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.

I Don't Even Call It Violence When It's In Self Defense; I Call It Intelligence.

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.

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

They Don't Stand For Anything Different In South Africa Than America Stands For. The Only Difference Is Over There They Preach As Well As Practice Apartheid. America Preaches Freedom And Practices Slavery.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

Culture Is An Indispensable Weapon In The Freedom Struggle.

Negroes Don't Even Like Snails! What They're Doing Is Proving They're Integrated.

[ 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.

Trending Author

Category