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The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.
As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.
I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything
When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.
Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.
Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!
I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate.
Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us the religion of Islam, which is a religion of peace.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.
Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.
Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.