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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" White America is in the minority. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. "

" When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. "

" 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. "

" You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" America preaches integration and practices segregation. "