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

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" If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" History is not hatred. "

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

" The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. "

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

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

" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "

" 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. "

" Stumbling is not falling. "

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

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

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

" White America is in the minority. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. "

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

" Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. "

" Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. "

" 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.' "