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Anytime You Tell A Man To Turn The Other Cheek Or To Be Nonviolent In The Face Of A Violent Enemy, You're Making That Man Defenseless. You're Robbing Him Of His God-given Right To Defend Himself.

What I Want To Know Is How The White Man, With The Blood Of Black People Dripping Off His Fingers, Can Have The Audacity To Be Asking Black People [why] They Hate Him?

The Negro Fought And Bled And Died In Every War The White Man Waged, And He Still Won't Give You Justice. You Nursed His Baby And Cleaned Behind His Wife, And He Still Won't Give You Freedom; You Turned The Other Cheek While He Lynched You And Raped Your Women, But He Still Won't Give You Equality.

Anytime Anyone Is Enslaved Or In Any Way Deprived Of His Liberty, That Person, As A Human Being, As Far As I'm Concerned He Is Justified To Resort To Whatever Methods Necessary To Bring About His Liberty Again.

Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Makes Black People Brave Enough, Men Enough To Defend Ourselves No Matter What The Odds Are, The White Man Runs Around Here With A Doctrine That Mr. Muhammad Is Advocating The Violence When He Is Actually Telling Negroes To Defend Themselves Against Violent People.