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

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" If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. "

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

" Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. "

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

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

" The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. "

" 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. "

" Stumbling is not falling. "

" The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. "

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

" There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. "

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

" History proves that the white man is a devil. "

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

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

" 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. "

" History is not hatred. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "