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(applause)

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In the name of Allah, 
the beneficent, the merciful

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to whom all praise is due,

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whom we forever thank for giving us
the honorable Elijah Mohammad

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as our leader, teacher, and guide.

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And I specifically, ladies and gentleman,
and brothers and sisters,

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open up like that because I 
am a representative

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of the honorable Elijah Mohammad.

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And were it not for him,
you and wouldn't be here today.

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In order for you and me to devise
some kind of method or strategy

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to offset some of the events
or the repetition of the events

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that have taken place here 
in Los Angelas recently,


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we have to go to the root.
We have to go to the cause.

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Dealing with the condition 
itself is not enough.

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- We have to get to the cause of it all.
- (crowd concurs)

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Or the root of it all.

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And it is because of our effort
toward getting straight to the root

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that people oft times think 
we're dealing in hate.

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But first I would like to congratulate
and give praise to the Negro,

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so-called Negro leaders
and so-called Negro organizations

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and, excuse me if I say so-called, it's hard 
for me to just outright say Negro

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- when I know what that word Negro really means.
- (thunderous applause)

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The person whom you have
come to know as Ronald Stokes,

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we know him as Brother Ron –

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one of the most religious persons
to display the highest form of morals

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of any Black person 
anywhere on this Earth.

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And as one of the previous speakers 
pointed out, who knew him,

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everyone who knew him had to give 
him credit for being a good man.

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A clean man, an intelligent man, 
and an innocent man

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when he was murdered.

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The Negro, so-called Negro, organizations
and leaders should be given

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great credit for their failure or refusal
to let the White man divide them

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and use them, one against the other,
during this crisis.

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(thunderous applause)

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As Reverend [Walkard] Wilson pointed out,
I think it was eight years ago today

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that the Supreme Court handed down
the desegregation decision.

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And despite the fact that eight years
have gone past, that decision

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- hasn't been implemented yet.
- (applause from audience)

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I don't have that much faith.

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I don't have that much confidence.

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I don't have that much patience.

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And I don't have that much ignorance to--

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(thunderous applause)

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If the Supreme Court, which is 
the highest lawmaking body

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in the country, can pass a decision that 
can't get even eight percent compliance

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within eight years, because 
it's for Black people,

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then my patience has run out.


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(applause)

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When Black people who are being
oppressed become impatient,

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they say that's emotional.

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(murmuring)

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Please, when black people who are being
deprived of their citizenship...

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not only of their civil rights, 
but their human rights,

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become impatient, become fed up,
don't wanna wait any longer,

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then they say that's emotional.

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(laughter and applause)

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The Negro, so-called Negro, leaders 
and organizations should be praised.

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They should be congratulated.

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They should be complimented

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because out of all of them combined,
the White man has not yet found

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one who will play the role of Uncle Tom.

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(thunderous applause)

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But yet he has found no Tom, no puppet,
no parrot, who is still dumb enough

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in 1962 to represent the injustices
that he is inflicting against our people.

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We don't care what your religion is.

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We don't care what 
organization you belong to.

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We don't care how far 
in school you went or didn't go.

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We don't care what kind of job you have.

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We have to give you credit 
for shocking the White man

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by not letting him divide you 
and use you one against the other.

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In the past, the greatest weapon 
the White man has had

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has been his ability 
to divide and conquer.

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As Jackie Robinson pointed out beautifully
on the television last night,

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4/5 of the world isn't White.

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- Isn't that what Jackie said?
- (applause)

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And if 4/5 of the world is dark,
how is it possible for 1/5

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to rule, oppress, exploit, dominate, 
and brutalize the 4/5

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who are in the majority?
How did they do it?

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Divide and conquer.

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If I take my hand and slap you,
you don't even feel it –

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(It might sting you.)
– because these digits are separated.

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But all I have to do to put you 
back in your place is bring

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- those digits together.
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This is what the White man 
has done to you and me.

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He has divided us, and 
used us one against the other.

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But today, thanks to Allah –
(You can say thanks to God,

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or thanks to Jesus, or thanks to 
Jehovah – whatever you want.)

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(applause)

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But as a follower of
the honorable Elijah Mohammad,

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we have been taught 
to say thanks to Allah.

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And that's what Jesus said.
Jesus called on Allah.

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He said, "Allah! [inaudible]"

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I believe what's good for Jesus
is good for you.

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If Allah was good enough for Jesus
to call upon, I think he

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- should be good enough for you to call upon.
- (man) That's right!

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Since the so-called Negro community
has shocked the White man

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by resisting all efforts to divide us,

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I think that you and I 
should continue to shock him

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by singing and working together in unity.

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Despite religious, political, economic, 
or educational, or social differences,

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let us remember that we are not brutalized
because we're Baptists.

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We're not brutalized 
because we're Methodists.

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We're not brutalized
because we're Muslims.

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We're not brutalized
because we're Catholics.

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We're brutalized because
because we are Black people in America.

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Here your mother is being raped,
and you're not supposed to be emotional.

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Your women – please –
your woman can't walk the street

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without some Cracker 
putting his hands on her--

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- and you're not supposed to be emotional!
- (applause)

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If you say that you're fed up,
if you teach the Negro – (film skips)

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- they don't even know their own name--
- (woman) That's right!

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Why? Because he took took it away from her.

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Please, please. 20 million Black people 
don't even know their own language.

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Why? Because he took it away from us.

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20 million Black people who 
don't even know their history

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of their ancestors.
Why? Because he took it away from us!

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And if you try and tell them 
how thoroughly and completely

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they've been robbed, he says 
you're teaching hate.


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[That's something to think about.

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(murmuring)

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Today we're coming out college, you're 
coming out of the leading universities.

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You're trying to go in a good direction.

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But you don't which direction to go in.

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And if somebody tries to take you 
right to the root of your problem

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they say that that man's a hate teacher.

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If I ask why should 
the Senators in Washington--

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and, then again, if we tell you that negro
are being hung on the tree,

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or being shot down illegally, unjustly...

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and those negros should do
something to protect themselves

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you say you're advocating violence.

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The white man is tricking you!
He's trapping you.

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He doesn't call it violence when he 
lands troops in South Vietnam.

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- (applause)
- Please, please, please!

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He doesn't call it violence 
when he lands troops in Berlin.

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When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor,
he didn't say get non-violent.

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He said, "Praise the Lord, 
but pass the ammunition."

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(applause)

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But when someone attacks you,
when someone comes at you with a club,

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when someone comes you with a rope,
when someone comes at you with a gun,

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despite the fact that you've done nothing
he tells you, "Suffer peacefully."

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- (murmuring)
- "Pray for those who use you to spite me."

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[inaudible].

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And how long can you suffer 
after suffering for 400 years?

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(applause)

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So I just wanna play up 
that little point right there

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because he said that we 
play on your emotions.

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And when you turn 
on your television tonight,

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or your radio, or read the newspaper,
they're gonna tell you in that paper

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that I was playing on your emotions.

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Imagine you, a second class citizen.
That's not getting emotional!

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It's getting intelligent.

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And as far as your mayor is concerned,
I see [audible].

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A man named Jordy,

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who has been slandering the Muslims,

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a professional liar--
a professional liar.

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(applause)

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Who has mastered the art 
of using half truths.

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Put in the paper that they break 
into our religious place of worship

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and got records that they can use to prove
that most of us have criminal records.

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You can't be a negro in America 
and not have a criminal record.

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(thunderous applause)

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Martin Luther King has been to jail.

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- (applause)
- Please.

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James Farmer has been to jail.

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Why, you can't name a black man 
in this country who was sick and tired

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of the hell that he's [catching] 
who hasn't been to jail.

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Charged him with being seditious.

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- They put Moses in jail!
- (woman) Yeah!

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- They put Daniel in jail.
- (woman) Yeah!

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Why, you haven't got a man of God 
in the Bible that wasn't put to jail

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when they started speaking up against 
exploitation and oppression.

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(applause)

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They charged Jesus with sedition.

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- Didn't they do that?
- (crowd concurs)

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They said he was against Caesar.

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They said he was discriminating 
because he told his disciples,

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"Go not the way of the gentiles,
but rather go to the lost sheep."

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He discriminated!
Don't go near the gentiles,

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go to the lost sheep.
Go to the oppressed.

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Go the downtrodden.
Go to the exploited.

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Go the people who don't 
know who they are,

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who are lost from the knowledge 
of themselves and who are

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strangers in a land that is not theirs.

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Go to those people!
Go to the slaves.

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Go the second class citizens.
Go to the ones who are suffering

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the brunt of Cesar's brutality.

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And if Jesus were here in America today, 
he wouldn't be going to the white man.

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The white man is the oppressor! 
He would be going to the oppressed.

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He would be going to the humble.
He would be going to the lowly.

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He would be going to
the rejected and the despised.

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He would be going to 
the so-called American negro.

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To have once been a criminal

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is no disgrace.

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To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

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I formally was a criminal.

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I formally was in prison.
I'm not ashamed of that.

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You never can use that over my head.

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And he's using the wrong stick!

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I don't feel that stick.

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(laughter and applause)

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I went to a prison because I 
believed in men like Sam [Jordy].

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I went to prison because I 
trusted men like Sam [Jordy]

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I went to prison following the philosophy
of men like Sam [Jordy].

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But since I've been following 
the honorable Elijah Mohammad,

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I have been reformed 
and that's more--please--

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that's more than Sam [Jordy] 
and [Chief Parker]

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and all these other white politicians
that have been able to do

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with the inmates in 
the prisons of this state.

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They should give Mr. Mohammad credit.
They should give Mr. Mohammad credit

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for reforming and rehabilitating 
men whom they have failed

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- to reform and rehabilitate.
- (thunderous applause)

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Mayor [Jordy] went forward 
to some press report

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that Mr. Mohammad had once been found 
guilty of contributing to the delinquency

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of a minor.

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He failed to explain, 
purposely, that in 1934,

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the honorable Elijah Mohammad 
refused to send his children

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to white schools in Detroit, Michigan, 
that were teaching you

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about little black Sambo.

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That's the minor that he contributed 
to the delinquency of.

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You see this vicious, fork-tongue 
white man has been able

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to take lies and make you turn against 
those who want to help you

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and make others turn against you.

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This is the contributing to 
the delinquency of a minor

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that this mayor, or a man who calls 
himself mayor, is talking about.

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In the same article he said that 
the Muslims are the same people

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who rioted in the United Nations.

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Someone should pull his coat and let 
him know that at the present moment

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there's six million dollars worth of suits
[inaudible] level against two

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of New York's leading newspapers 
for making a mistake of charging

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the Muslims as being involved 
in those United Nations riots.

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We were not involved!

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And if this fork-tongued man 
who calls himself your mayor

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had taken the time to find that out,
he wouldn't be walking into the trap

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that he's letting his 
ignorance lead him into!

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(applause)

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And if you take the time to read

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the Washington Post that came out 
the Sunday after that incident took place,

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the Washington Post pointed out 
on the front page that the Muslims

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had nothing to do with the UN riots
and they quoted the [inaudible],

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the person who was at that time
the Commissioner of Police in New York City.

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See, it's lies that the white man 
has spread about the Muslims

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to try and make you afraid of the Muslims,
or to try and make you think

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that the Muslims were a criminal element,
an uncouth element in things


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that you have not liked 
to be associated with.

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Also, they say that--
I'm clearing these things up

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and then we're going 
to get into what happened.

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They also say that the honorable Elijah 
Mohammad was draft dodger.

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No, he wasn't.

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He just refused to go to the army
because he was a man of peace.

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He was a minister of a religion of peace.
He was teaching peace.

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So he outright refused to go to the army.

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That's not draft dodging.
That's intelligence.

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(cheering)

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Here, before the grand jury,

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because the coroner's jury 
is stacked against negros.

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(cheers and applause)

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The Grand Jury is stacked against negros.

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The press, the radio, the television
and the newspapers

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- are stacked against negros.
- (crowd concurs)

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But, please, the Los Angeles 
Police department is stacked

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against all negros, all except those he
has appointed to high positions.

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The control press, the white press
inflames the white public against negroes.

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The police are able to use it
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as a criminal element.

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The police are able to use the press 
to make the white public think


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that 90%, or 99%, of the Negroes in the 
negro community are criminals.

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And once the white public is convinced
that most of the negro community 


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is a criminal element, then this
automatically paves the way for the

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police to move into the negro 
community, exercising Gestapo


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tactics, stopping any black man who
is in this - on he sidewalk, whether he

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is guilty or whether he is innocent.
Whether he is well dressed or whether

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he is poorly dressed. Whether he is
educated or whether he is dumb.

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Whether he's a Christian or whether
he's a Muslim.

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As long as he is black and a member
of the negro community


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the white public thinks that the white
policeman is justified

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in going in there and trampling on that
mans civil rights and on that mans

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human rights.
(applause)

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Once the police have convinced the
white public that the so-called

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negro community is a criminal element,
they can go in and question, 


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brutalize, murder, unarmed innocent
negroes and the white public

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is gullible enough to back them up.

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This makes the negro community
a police state.

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This makes the negro neighborhood
a police state.

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It's the most heavily patrolled.
It has more police in it than any

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other neighborhood, yet it has more
crime than any other neighborhood.

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How can you have more cops
and more crime?

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(laughter)

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It shows you that the cops must be
in cahoots with the criminals.

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(laughter, applause)

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The texture of the hair that God [inaudible],
that God gave them

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so much that they put lye on it. 
(laughter)

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Do you realise - now, you know brother;
lye will eat a hole in steel and you

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know your head is not that hard.

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(applause)

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Who taught you - please. Who taught
you to hate the texture of your hair?

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Who taught you to hate the color of 
your skin to such extent that 


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you bleach to get like the white man?

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Who taught you to hate 
the shape of your nose

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and the shape of your lips?
Who taught you to hate yourself

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from the top of your head
to the soles of your feet?

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Who taught you to hate 
your own kind?

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Who taught you to hate
the race that you belong to?

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So much so that you don't want
to be around each other.

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You know, before you come asking
Mr. Mohammed

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does he teach hate?

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You should ask who- yourself, 
who taught you to hate 


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being what God gave you. 
(applause)

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We teach you to love the hair 
that God gave you.

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Here you, way out in the middle
of the ocean, can't swim

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and you worried about someone
that's in the bathtub and can't swim.

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(laughter, applause)

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We don't steal. We don't gamble.
We don't lie, and we don't cheat.

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And that also deprives the government
of revenue


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(laughter)

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because you can't get into a whiskey
bottle without getting


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past the government seal.

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You can't open a deck of cards without
getting past the government seal.

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Hell, the white man makes the whiskey
then puts you in jail for getting drunk.

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(cheering)

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He sells you the cards and the dice
and puts you in jail when he

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catches you using 'em.

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So, he's against us because we fix it
where he can't catch you anymore.

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We take the dice outta your hands
and the cards out of your hands


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and the whiskey out of your head.

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The most disrespected person in
America is the black woman.

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The most unprotected person in 
America is the black woman.

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The most neglected person in
America is the black woman.

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And as Muslims, the honorable
Elijah Mohammad teaches us

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to respect our women
and to protect our women.

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And the only time a Muslim really 
gets real violent is when

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someone goes to molest his woman.
- (man) right!

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(applause)

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We will kill you for our woman.

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I'm making it plain. Yes. 
We will kill you for our woman.

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(applause)

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We believe that if the white man 
will do whatever is necessary

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to see that his woman gets respect
and protection

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then you and I will never be 
recognised as men

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until we stand up like men
and place the same penalty


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over the head of anyone who puts 
his filthy hands in the direction


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of our women. 


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(thunderous applause)

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We respect them, but we want them
to respect us.

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We think that the law should respect
the negro community.

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The law should protect
the negro community.

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The law should approach the
community with intelligence if it

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expects the negro community to
react intelligently.

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So, the honorable Elijah Mohammed
teaches us

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to always avoid anything that smacks
of disrespect for the law.

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And if the police department tells the
truth, the will have to admit

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that they have never had any, uh, 
experiences with Muslims that

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have ever been anything other
than honorable

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unless they themselves come at us
in a dishonorable way.

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There's no case against the Muslims.

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It has no case against these brothers
whom they shot down.

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And because it has no case,
it's trying to create a case.

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It's trying to manufacture a case.

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And therefore they set up a grand jury 
hearing of the case so that they

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could hear it behind closed doors,
and after hearing what we have to say


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then they'll- their particular strategy
or defense against the actions

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that they committed on that April
the 27th.

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So, at the advice of our attorneys,
we purposefully, the victims,


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those who have been indicted, or
rather those who have been arrested

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and are out on bond, have purposefully
refrained and refused from making

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any statement whatsoever until after
the case appears in court.

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And when you hear their story
it will be in a public trial.

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We have already been - had 
experience with these private hearings

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behind closed doors.

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Anything that the white man has to
do to the Muslim,

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he has to do it in the open.

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He has to do it in public, or he has to
put every single one of us


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behind bars for the rest our our lives.

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(applause)

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When Mayor Yorty called for a
government investigation


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of a religious group that have the
highest moral standards

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of any group in the negro community,
Mayor Yorty was giving you an


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example of what Hitler did in Nazi
Germany when he began to go


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on the rampage.

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(applause)

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We feel, we have confidence that 
the white public and the black public,

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if they hear our case, if they hear and
have access to the investigation,

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will never be fooled by this phony
set up that's stacked from the top


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all the way down.

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And if you doubt it, when you leave home
tonight, when you go home tonight

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look for the press.
I'd like at this time to call forth

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these brothers who are under, uh,
who were arrested.

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The brothers who were arrested. Come 
up here behind these chairs, please.

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(applause)

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They were suspects. 
(laughter)

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This wouldn't happen in a
white neighborhood.

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White man can walk down the street
with packages on his head

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packages under his arm
and packages anywhere else

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and won't anybody question his
right to carry those packages.

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But a negro is suspect because
the press makes you suspect.

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Yes, the white press makes negroes 
suspect.

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(murmuring)

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All the information you need, Officer.


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And the Officer made one stay at the
rear of the car and the 


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other go to the front of the car,
and while he was taking the one


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to the one to the front of the car,
the polite attitude, the humble if,

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the submissive, intelligent peaceful
spirit that he uexpectedly found

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in this negro infuriated him.
And he began to - he told

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the brother; 'put down your hands.'
Brother was talking, he's not a criminal.

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A man has a right on the
sidewalk to talk with his hands.

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'Put down your hands, don't talk with 
your hands.'

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And when the brother continued to
gesture with his hands

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the Officer grabbed his hand, twisted
it around, 'round behind his back

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flung him up against the car
and then that's when hell broke loose.

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That was when hell broke loose.

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A struggle ensured, shots were fired
by the police

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and by a negro door shaker.

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(laughter)

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An alarm went out.

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When the alarm went out, instead
of the police going to the place

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where the incident occurred,
the police went one block away

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to the temple.

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When they arrived there, they got out 
of their cars with their guns smokin'.

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You woulda thought it was Wyatt -
what his name?

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Wyatt Earp.

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I'm telling you, they came out of those 
cars, and we have enough

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witnesses to hang 'em.

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With their guns smokin'.

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Cheif Packer knows this,
Mayor Yorty knows this


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and every police official in the city
knows that.

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They didn't fire no warning shots in 
the air

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they fired warning shots point blank at
innocent, unarmed,

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defenseless negros.

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As I say, two of the brothers were 
shot in the back.

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Another was shot in the shoulder.

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Another was shot, two of them were
shot, excuse the expression,

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through the penis.

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(murmuring)

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Another was shot in the hip and the
bullet came out the other side.

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But Arthur here was shot 1/4 of an
inch from his heart.

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Let me tell you something, and I'll tell
you why you say 'we hate white people'.

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We don't hate anybody.

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We love our own people so much,
they think we hate the ones who


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are inflicting injustice against them.

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(applause)

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Who has been shot, the bullet
having passed a 1/4 of an 


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inch through his heart.

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I'm not gonna let him talk, which
I think you can understand why.

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You should listen to the conversation
of the police officers

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while it was going on.

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Two of the brothers who had been shot,
who were lying hand in hand,

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the officer said they were chanting a 
death chant.

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You read that.

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They were saying 'Allahu Akbar'.
What does that mean?

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It means that God is the greatest.
It means that God is the greatest.

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(applause)

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Understand what the white officer called
a death chant was a prayer.


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They were praying when they 
were shot down.

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They were saying Allhu Akbar.

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And it shook the officer up that they
haven't heard black people talk


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any kinda talk but what they taught 'em.

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And two of the brothers who were shot
in the back were telling me that


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as they lay on the sidewalk, they
were holding hands.

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They held hands with each other
saying Allahu Akbar.

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And the blood was seeping out of
them where the police bullets 


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had torn into their insides.
Still, they said Allahu Akbar

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and the police came and kicked them
in the head.

467
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Police kicked them in the head
telling them to shut up that noise

468
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
while they were laying on the sidewalk
in front of our temple.

469
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Kicked them in the head.

470
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Shut up that noise. And one of them,
when he was on his way to the

471
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
police station in the ambulance,
one of the ambulance attendants

472
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
told the white cop, 'why don't you
kill the nigger?'

473
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
He said, 'I'll tell them that he tried
to get away. Why don't you


474
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
kill the nigger? While you got a chance.
I'll swear that he tried to get away.'

475
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
If he didn't say this, then I need to
be put in jail, and I'll gladly go.

476
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(applause)

477
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
One of them who was being taken to
jail in a police car

478
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
as the ambulance sirens were coming
to the place, one of the policeman

479
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
said to the other: 'what are the 
ambulances rushing for? Nothing

480
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
but some niggers.' 
So, he looked then and saw the Muslim

481
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
brothers sitting beside him 
and he shut up.

482
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But after he got to the jail, the same 
officer that said this

483
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
turned to the brother and said; 'I hope
that you didn't get offended by

484
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
what I said back there under the heat
of emotion, because some of my

485
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
best friends are colored.'

486
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(roaring)

487
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's what he said.

488
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
That's his password: 'Some of my best
friends are colored.'

489
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And I for one, as a Muslim, believe
that the white man is intelligent

490
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
enough, if he were made to realise 
how black people really feel

491
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and how fed up we are without that
whole compromising sweet talk.

492
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Why you're the one that make it 
hard for yourself.

493
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
The white man believes you when you
go to him with that old sweet talk

494
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
'cause you been sweet talkin' him
ever since he brought you here.

495
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Stop sweet talking him.
Tell him how you feel.

496
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Tell him how or what kinda hell you
been catching

497
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and let him know that if he's not ready
to clean his house up

498
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
if hes not ready to clean his house up,
he shouldn't have a house.

499
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It should catch on fire. And burn down.

500
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(applause)

501
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
As Muslims, we identify ourselves with
the dark world.

502
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So we're not any minority.
We're apart of the majority

503
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and the white man is the minority.

504
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(applause)

505
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You have to know this to understand us:
we don't think any odds are


506
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
against us.


507
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We don't fight a battle like the odds
are against us.

508
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Why, the whole dark world today
is in unity.

509
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
It's one. If you don't 
think so, look at the United Nations.

510
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When the dark world votes,
they vote as one.

511
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They gettin' the colonialists out of Africa,
and out of Asia.

512
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Tellin' them to get out. 
They don't have any nuclear weapons

513
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
but they got a solid, united voice
and they're unity alone is sufficient

514
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
to drive the oppressor and exploiter
of their people out of their own country.


515
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You and I need to learn a lesson from
that right there.

516
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
In the UN, the dark world consists of
Buddhist's, Hindu's, Shinto's,

517
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Taoist's, Christian's, Muslims,
everything.

518
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
But they're together.

519
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They forget their religious and
political differences.

520
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They think as one. 
They move as one

521
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
against a common enemy.

522
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And [inaudible] of Algeria, he's
going, don't think he's not going,

523
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
he's going.

524
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(applause)

525
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They're getting him out of Angola,
out of Tanganyika, out of Angola,

526
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Out of Uganda, out of Kenya. 
He's going from South Africa, too.

527
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
He hasn't got long to be there.


528
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
All over this earth, dark people who
have been oppressed and exploited

529
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
by those who are not their own kind, 
strangers, are coming together to

530
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
get the oppressor off their back.

531
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
You and I learn a lesson from that.

532
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We are oppressed.

533
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We are exploited.

534
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We are downtrodden.

535
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
We are denied, not only civil rights, 
but even human rights.

536
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
So, the only way we're going to get
some of this oppression

537
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and exploitation away from us,
or aside from us

538
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
is come together against the
common enemy.

539
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
(applause)

540
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
When they sat down at the Bandung
conference, everyone there

541
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
has this in common: a dark skin.

542
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Some of those who were sitting there
were socialists, some were communists,

543
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
some where capitalists, some were
Christian, some were Buddhist.

544
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
They were everything!
But all of 'em was dark skinned.

545
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
And they looked at that dark skin
and agreed that this is


546
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
one thing they had in common.

547
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Forget that you're a Methodist,
forget that you're a Catholic,

548
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
forget that you're a Protestant,
forget that you're a Muslim.

549
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
Remember that all of us are black,

550
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999
and we're catching h -