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"[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned."
"Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never."
"[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected."
"I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history."
"History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!"
"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."
"Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself."
"The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential."
"The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight."
"As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together."
"What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years."
"I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites."
"Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed."
"Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick."
"[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this."
"I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug."
"I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything"
"Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it."
"The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds."
"What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right."