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

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" We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party. "

" History is not hatred. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. "

" 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. "

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

" The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. "

" Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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.' "

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