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

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" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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