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

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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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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

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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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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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