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

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

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

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