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

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" All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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