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.

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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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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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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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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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

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

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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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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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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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