12/7/2023 0 Comments I want to say anything quotes![]() “When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. on those he encouraged to follow Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad “…I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.” “Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.” ![]() Febru(2 days before he was murdered by Nation of Islam followers) That’s the only thing that can save this country.” “It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn’t believe it.” I always believed that he believed in himself. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. “The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. I feel that what I’m thinking and saying is now for myself. “I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” “I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.” “A race of people is like an individual man until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.” “Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.” “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.” “They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.” Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” “My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” “Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. “We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.” “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
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