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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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

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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.

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There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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

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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.

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

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