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" Truth is on the side of the oppressed. "

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" You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. "

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

" I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. "

" History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. "

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

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

" Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. "

" If ballots won't work, bullets will. "

" The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

" In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. "

" When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people. "