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</a>"We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us."
<br><br>
"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or
think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what
you know today." <br><br>
"My alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest
of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." <br><br>
"Stumbling is not falling." <br><br>
"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak,
every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your
performance next time." <br><br>
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us."
<br><br>
"Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend
himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." <br><br>
"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." <br><br>
"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." <br><br>
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of
your vocabulary." <br><br>
"I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone
else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for
myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I
think with my own mind, sir!" <br><br>
"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." <br><br>
"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the
oppressed and those that do the oppressing. 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."
<br><br>
"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for
the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this
country." February 19, 1965 (2 days before he was murdered by Nation
of Islam followers)<br><br>
"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."
<br><br>
"...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."
...on those he encouraged to follow Nation of Islam leader Elijah
Muhammad<br><br>
"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing
under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you
hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to
tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing
in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in
freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his
freedom." <br><br>
"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do
is to be an intelligent human being." <br><br>
"Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom." <br><br>
"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job
difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the
white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more
willing to hear Dr. King." ...in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta
Scott King.<br><br>
"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and
segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and
that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their
color." <br><br>
<b>On Lynching And The Ku Klux Klan<br>
<i>By Ho Chi Minh (1924)<br>
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</i>It is well known that the Black race is the most oppressed and the
most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of
capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result
the rebirth of slavery, which was for centuries a scourge for the Negroes
and a bitter disgrace for mankind.<br>
<br>
What everyone does not perhaps know is that after sixty-five years of
so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and
material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom
of lynching.<br>
<br>
The word “lynching” comes from Lynch. Lynch was the name of a planter in
Virginia, a landlord and judge. Availing himself of the troubles of the
War of Independence, he took the control of the whole district into his
hands. He inflicted the most savage punishment, without trial or process
of law, on Loyalists and Tories. Thanks to the slave traders, the Ku Klux
Klan, and other secret societies, the illegal and barbarous practice of
lynching is spreading and continuing widely in the States of the American
Union. It has become more inhuman since the emancipation of the Blacks,
and is especially directed at the latter...<br>
<br>
From 1899 to 1919, 2,600 Blacks were lynched, including 51 women and
girls and ten former Great War soldiers. Among 78 Black lynched in 1919,
11 were burned alive, three burned after having been killed, 31 shot,
three tortured to death, one cut into pieces, one drowned, and 11 put to
death by various means.<br>
<br>
Georgia heads the list with 22 victims, Mississippi follows with 12. Both
have also three lynched soldiers to their credit. Of the 11 burned alive,
the first State has four and the second two. Out of 34 cases of
systematic, premeditated and organized lynching, it is still Georgia that
holds first place with five. Mississippi comes second with three.<br>
<br>
Among the charges brought against the victims of 1919, we note: one of
having been a member of the League of Non-Partisans (independent
farmers); one of having distributed revolutionary publications; one of
expressing his opinion on lynchings too freely; one of having criticized
the clashes between Whites and Blacks in Chicago; one of having been
known as a leader of the cause of the Blacks; one for not getting out of
the way and thus frightening a white child who was in a motorcar. In
1920, there were fifty lynchings, and in 1922 there were
twenty-eight.<br>
<br>
These crimes were all motivated by economic jealousy. Either the Negroes
in the area were more prosperous than the Whites, or the Black workers
would not let themselves be exploited thoroughly. In all cases, the
principle culprits were never troubled, for the simple reason that they
were always incited, encouraged, spurred on, then protected by
politicians, financiers, and authorities, and above all, by the
reactionary press...<br>
<br>
The place of origin of the Ku Klux Klan is the Southern United States. In
May, 1866, after the Civil War, young people gathered together in a small
locality of the State of Tennessee to set up a club. A question of
whiling away the time. This organization was given the name “kuklos”, a
Greek word meaning “club”. To Americanize the word, it was changed into
Ku Klux. Hence, for more originality, Ku Klux Klan.<br>
<br>
After big social upheavals, the public mind is naturally unsettled. It
becomes avid for new stimuli and inclined to mysticism. The KKK, with its
strange garb, its bizarre rituals, its mysteries, and its secrecy,
irresistibly attracted the curiosity of the Whites in the Southern States
and became very popular. It consisted at first of only a group of snobs
and idlers, without political or social purpose. Cunning elements
discovered in it a force able to serve their political ambitions. The
victory of the Federal Government had just freed the Negroes and made
them citizens. The agriculture of the South - deprived of its Black
labor, was short of hands. Former landlords were exposed to ruin.<br>
<br>
The Klansmen proclaimed the principle of the supremacy of the white race.
Anti Negro was their only policy. The agrarian and slaveholding
bourgeoisie saw in the Klan a useful agent, almost a savior. They gave it
all the help in their power. The Klan’s methods ranged from intimidation
to murder...<br>
<br>
The Klan is for many reasons doomed to disappear. The Negroes, having
learned during the war that they are a force if united, are no longer
allowing their kinsmen to be beaten or murdered with impunity. They are
replying to each attempt at violence by the Klan. In July 1919, in
Washington, they stood up to the Klan and a wild mob. The battle raged in
the capital for four days. In August, they fought for five days against
the Klan and the mob in Chicago. Seven regiments were mobilized to
restore order. In September the government was obliged to send federal
troops to Omaha to put down similar strife. In various other States the
Negroes defend themselves no less energetically.<br>
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