“[ Uncle Sam] is not sending 20 billion dollars to South America because he loves those people down here. He's sending it - sending it to them because he needs their friendship, he needs their allegion - their allegiance.”
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People Quotes — page 991 of 5018
“Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.”
“The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.”
“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”
“America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.”
“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.”
“There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.”
“I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.”
“I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.”
“Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk.”
“I don't think Mike Tyson's a bad guy. I think the people, the media, makes him out to be a bad guy.”
“I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.”
“One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.”
“I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.”
“I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.”
“Let people live their lives, as long as they don't hurt anybody. As long as they don't destroy their own lives.”
“I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.”
“The seventies and eighties are when the division was really good. The fights were very enjoyable and everyone knew when the next fight was. Nowadays, you don't even know who won a fight three days after it happens. We need heavyweights, the people want heavyweights.”
“All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.”
“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”