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" Stumbling is not falling. "

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" 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. "

" It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. "

" You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. "

" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "

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

" The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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