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" 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. "

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" The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. "

" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "

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

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

" You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. "

" I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. "

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" 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. "