"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"
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"Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution."
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"The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations."
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"Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization."
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"When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles."
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"I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role."
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"We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way."
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"Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist."
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"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals."
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"If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity."
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"Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient."
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"How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!"
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"I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything."
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"If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand."
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"Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out."
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"[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together."
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"I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion."
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"Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition."
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"First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively."
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"After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad."
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