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" To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace. "

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" Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. "

" 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. "

" History is not hatred. "

" 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. "

" We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath. "

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

" 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. "

" If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. "

" 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. "

" What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. "

" I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now. "

" 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! "

" Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "

" 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. "

" White America is in the minority. "

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

" America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" History proves that the white man is a devil. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. "

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