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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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