"Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself."
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"Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't."
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"America just reaped what it had been sowing."
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"America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like."
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"Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is."
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"Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also."
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"Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people."
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"Instead of the Negro leaders having the black man begging for a chance to - to dine in white restaurants, the Negro leader should be showing the black man how to do something to strengthen his own economy."
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"Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day."
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"The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down."
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"The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!"
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"Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical."
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"We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods."
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"If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories."
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"Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively."
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"I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves."
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"To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical."
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"Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]."
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"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work."
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"Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things."
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