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" America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. "

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" I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. "

" 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. "

" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "

" I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. "

" Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. "

" I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. "

" Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. "

" Stumbling is not falling. "

" Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. "

" The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. "

" To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. "

" 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. "

" You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. "

" You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. "

" I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. "

" Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. "

" White America is in the minority. "

" We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. "

" For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. "

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" You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. "

" 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. "

" In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. "

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" It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. "

" You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. "