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

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" You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "

" The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. "

" What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. "

" 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.' "

" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "

" Stumbling is not falling. "

" In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. "

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

" If ballots won't work, bullets will. "

" My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people! "

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

" Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. "

" There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. "

" When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. "

" I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. "

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

" My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" White America is in the minority. "

" When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. "

" The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that 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. "

" Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. "

" The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "