"As soon as I heard the truth that Elijah Muhammad teaches us in America, it made me accept it."
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"I was asked in a way when Honorable Elijah Mohammed said take the step, choose between the wealth of America and the millions of dollars and the title, the ministry. So, I chose the ministry. If I was not sincere, then I would have easily went to Vietnam, boxin' exhibitions, and made a couple of cool million."
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"Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now."
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"Mr. president, I've been a citizen of the United States of America for thirty three years and was never invited to the White House. It sure gives me pleasure to be invited to the Black House."
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"How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is not there; the whole continent of Africa, soon to be 54 countries, don't have a single permanent seat; and Latin America is absent? It's not realistic."
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"When you have difficult issues on the table for discussion, then sometimes for Africa you may have Burundi or Gambia representing them on the Security Council; and then for Latin America you may have a country like Costa Rica, which is a wonderful country but they don't have the same weight as others from the other regions. And sometimes they get bullied. Sometimes their capitals come under lots of pressure to take a position."
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"The capture of Saddam has not made America safer."
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"The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe."
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"I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago."
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"America's greatness rests on far more than the power of our arms. Our greatness is also measured by our goodness, it's in the capacity of our minds, of our hearts, and it's in the strength of our democracy."
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"And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control."
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"America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast."
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"Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes."
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"Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it."
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"If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable."
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"As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways."
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"I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!"
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