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" 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! "

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" 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. "

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" My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. "

" America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.' "

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" If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. "

" 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. "

" 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 never takes a back step only in the face of more power. "

" 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 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. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

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

" Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "

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

" I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. "

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