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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 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.
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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 often 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, it's hard
for me to just outright say negro
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- when I know what that word 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.
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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 law making body
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in the country 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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(applause)
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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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(applause)
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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 are...
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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 on.
- (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 Baptist.
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We're not brutalized
because we're Methodist.
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We're not brutalized
because we're Muslim.
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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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(applause)
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Here your mother is being raped
and you're not supposed to be emotional.
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Your woman bleeds,
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
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- but 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 him
how thoroughly and completely
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they can rob, he says
you're teaching hate.
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(applause)
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[That's something __________ want.]
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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 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?
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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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(applause)
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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.
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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. STOP 19:40