The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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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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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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