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If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.
God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.
The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.
Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.
My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.
Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.
America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.
Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.
The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.
22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.
They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C.
Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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.
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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.
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.