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I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

Only the mistakes were mine.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Time is more important to me then distance

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

The collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

Do Your Best Work

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.

I came here to tell the truth - and if the truth condemns America, then she stands condemned!

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his ...

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the ...

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out.

Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.

Stumbling is not falling.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did.
If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.

When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits!

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

How is the black man going to get 'civil rights' before he first wins his human rights?

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it..

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

White America is in the minority.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

By Any Means Necessary"; "The Chickens Come Home To Roost".

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves ... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ...

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.