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- The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the…
- We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us…
- We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the…
- One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of…
- For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger…
- I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever…
- His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When…
- I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now…
- I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.
- Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our…
- The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
- 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…
- Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
- We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have…
- In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the…
- We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
- To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes…
- Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that…
- Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light…
- Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
- I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of…
- There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
- Anytime you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you're not.
- Your anger is like the bubbles in a can of soda. The more youre shaken, the more you want to let it out. The longer…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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