Like Samson, I Am Ready To Pull

When The Thing Is Finally Sparked, The White Man Is Not There - He's Gone. The Merchant Is Not There, The Landlord Is Not There, The One They Consider To Be The Enemy Isn't There. So, They Knock At His Property. This Is What Makes Them Knock Down The Store Windows And Set Fire To Things, And Things Of That Sort.

I Am A Muslim And . . . My Religion Makes Me Be Against All Forms Of Racism. It Keeps Me From Judging Any Man By The Color Of His Skin. It Teaches Me To Judge Him By His Deeds And His Conscious Behavior. And It Teaches Me To Be For The Rights Of All Human Beings, But Especially The Afro-american Human Being, Because My Religion Is A Natural Religion, And The First Law Of Nature Is Self-preservation.

I Think As An Intelligent Person You Would Agree That When You Are Teaching Among Oppressed People That They Should Be Relieved Of Their Oppression Not 100 Or 10 Years From Now, But Right Now, You're Going To Find Your Talk Is Going To Fall Upon Sympathetic Ears.

I'm Trying To Get At This. That Is, A Man May Know That He Belongs To, Say, A Group - This Group Or That Group - But He Feels Himself Lost Within That Group, Trapped Within His Own Deficiencies And Without Personal Purpose.

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. We Believed In Him. We Actually Believed That God, In Detroit By The Way, That God Had Taught Him And All Of That. I Always Believed That He Believed In Himself. And I Was Shocked When I Found Out That He Himself Didn't Believe It.