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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

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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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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.

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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: May 19th, 1925

Died: February 21st, 1965

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