The Negro Is Nothing But An Ex-slave

We, The Black Masses, Don't Want These Leaders Who Seek Our Support Coming To Us Representing A Certain Political Party. They Must Come To Us Today As Black Leaders Representing The Welfare Of Black People. We Won't Follow Any Leader Today Who Comes On The Basis Of Political Party. Both Parties (democrat And Republican) Are Controlled By The Same People Who Have Abused Our Rights, And Who Have Deceived Us With False Promises Every Time An Election Rolls Around.

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!

Now The Goal Of Dr. Martin Luther King Is To Give Negroes A Chance To Sit In A Segregated Restaurant Beside The Same White Man Who Has Brutalized Them For Four Hundred Years.

When A Man Understands Who He Is, Who God Is, Who The Devil Is... Then He Can Pick Himself Up Out Of The Gutter; He Can Clean Himself Up And Stand Up Like A Man Should Before His God.

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?