"A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom."
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"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 you aren't."
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"The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology"
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"Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen you are a slave."
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"I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God."
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"Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness."
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"The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution."
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"What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise."
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"When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing."
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"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
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"What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason."
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"Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice."
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"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
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"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down."
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"I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together."
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"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 best example of that."
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"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."
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"To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another."
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"Never allow your enemies to educate your children."
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"Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle."
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