Malcolm X

“ Yes, Our Brothers from the East came here and seemed to be apologists of Islam, instead of rightly spreading it, or defending it from the sly insults of the unbelieving Slavemaster.
Messenger Muhammad teaches us that Almighty God Allah is all-powerful and independent. Allah needs no one to apologize for Him. Islam, His true religion, is not a religion of compromise. Islam is truth itself, and this truth has long been kept a secret from us. ”

“ Messenger Elijah Muhammad, a meek and humble little Black Man, who has been Divinely Taught and Divinely Missioned by the Supreme Being, Almighty God Allah Himself, to teach naked truth to the so-called Negroes of America and raise us from our mental sleep, is making a proclamation among us today that the world must bear witness had to come straight from the mouth of Our God. ”

“ We have been his most dependable servants, proven trustworthy, never having produced even one spy or traitor from among ourselves . . . yet our Slavemaster won’t give us the right to be a citizen here.
We don’t have full citizenship (civil rights) here in America, and therefore the word “American” can’t rightfully be applied to us to designate our nationality, so our Slavemaster calls us Negroes, and Messenger Elijah Muhammad teaches us that the word “Negro” means something that is dead, lifeless. ”

“ All other people have their own religion, which teaches them of a God whom they can associate with themselves, a God who at least looks like one of their own kind. But, we so-called Negroes, after 400 years of masterful brainwashing by the Slavemaster, picture “our God” with the same blond hair, pale skin, and cold blue eyes of our murderous Slavemaster. ”

“ The average unlearned man cannot upset a learned person . . . unless he has been given something by the Most Learned One (the All-Knowing One) Almighty God Allah himself.
All praise is due to Allah. How well He has enabled us to see that this little meek and humble man is he of whom the Bible says: “How knoweth this man letters (such great wisdom having never learned (being unlearned) . . .” (John 7:15) . No man in history has ever fit such a prophetic picture more perfectly than this little unlearned man who is teaching us today with such great authority. ”

“ These are the very essentials of life, and they adorn the Crown of Life which we shall wear in Allah’s Paradise (the Kingdom of God) which shall soon be set up on this earth, for us to enjoy while we are living.
Almighty God Allah has a religion of life (not of death) that teaches us to live, the importance of living, and how to live . . . Allah is God of the living, and not the god of the dead. ”

“ So you who say you believe in the Almighty God Allah, but hesitate to teach naked truth for fear of hurting the tender feelings of this wicked white race . . . since you are filled with fear of the best (Rev. 21:8) , instead of standing in the way holding up progress, hardening your hearts with envy, jealousy and unbelief, step out of his way so that he can prove to the world that there is no God but Allah and that this Great God Allah has come to redeem His long-lost people . ”

“ His Christian religion teaches us that black is a curse, thus we who accept the Slavemaster’s religion find ourselves loving and respecting everything and everyone except black, and can picture God as being anything else except black. ”

“ Salaam (salama) in its primary sense, means to be tranquil, at rest, to have done one’s duty, to have paid up, to be at perfect peace; in its secondary sense it means to surrender oneself to Him (the Supreme Being, Allah) with whom peace is made. The noun (salaam) which is derived from it means peace, greeting, salvation, safety, submission to righteousness. The Arabic word Muslim (Moslem) means, one who is submissive, obedient and at peace with Almighty God Allah . . . one who is striving (on earth) after righteousness (on earth) . ”

“ He himself is almost like a “god,” his powers are so great. Small wonder then that every four years the eyes of even the foreign nations are turned toward America at election time, wondering who is going to be the next “god.” ”

“ Messenger Muhammad says that the teachers and religious leaders of our own kind here in America were as blind to the real truth as we, therefore, they themselves were not qualified to lead us beyond what the Slavemaster would allow them. How can the blind lead the blind? ”

“ In fact, many of us would rather believe that God is an invisible (colorless) “spirit,” than to admit even the possibility of his being black. Yet, Daniel saw Him with kinky hair (like lamb’s wool) in the seventh chapter of Daniel, ninth verse. ”