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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of...more

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No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn’t shown towards eve...more

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

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You can't have capitalism without racism.

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

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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...more

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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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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that 2...more