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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. "

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

" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. "

" In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' "

" 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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" I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races. "

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

" 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. "

" I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. "

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

" You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. "

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

" In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. "

" There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "