When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their info...
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Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered rec...
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hoo...
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No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s...
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America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work.
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A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States governm...
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Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too militant or too uncompromising a stand, are absol...
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his sid...
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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my...
