Famous Quotes On Trust Biography
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If peace means accepting second class citizenship, then I don’t want it. If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of evil and injustice, then I don’t want it. If peace means being complacent and accepting the status quo, then I don’t want it. If peace means being passive, then I don’t want it. If peace means a willingness to be exploited and humiliated, then that’s the kind of peace that I don’t want----DR. KING (from his speech in Louisville Kentucky , 1956)
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step------MALCOLM X (from the autobiography of Malcolm X)
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad found me here in America in the muck and mire, in the filthiest civilization on earth. He pulled me out and cleaned me up, and he stood me on my feet and made me the man I am-----MALCOLM X (from the Autobiography of Malcolm X)
You will not catch me with a free 15 minutes, in which I’m not studying something that I feel might be able to help the black man. Yesterday I spoke in London , and both ways on the plane across the Atlantic , I was studying. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read, and that’s a lot of books these days, If I wasn’t out here battling the white man everyday, I could spend the rest of my life reading. Reading changed the course of my life forever. I didn’t go to college, my alma mater was books-----MALCOLM X (from the Autobiography of Malcolm X)
When I was young I use to stammer, I couldn’t speak clearly. My mother gave me a violin, and I spoke through my instrument, but I never knew I could speak until I became a follower of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad----MINISTER FARRAKHAN (speaking to students, at the Muhammad School of Music)
In order to be great at anything you have to practice. Greatness can be in you, but you have to practice in order to bring it out. I reached the point that I was practicing 10 hours a day on my violin-----MINISTER FARRAKAHAN (speaking to students, at the Muhammad School of Music)
In High School I was the best in my music class on trumpet. I knew it, and everybody else knew it, but all of the prizes went to the white boys. It made me so mad that I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn. If I had not experienced that prejudice, I probably wouldn’t have the drive that I have today. That gave me the determination, and that made me the player that I am today.----MILES DAVIS (interview with Alex Haley)
White people have certain things that they expect from black musicians. It goes all the way back to slavery days. That’s when Uncle Toming got started because white people demanded it. Every little black child grew up seeing that getting along with white people, meant grinning and acting like a clown. It helped white people to feel easy about what they had done to blacks, and it’s still going on today. When it comes to black musicians, white people want you to do more than play your instrument. They want you to entertain them with grinning and dancing. I’m not an entertainer, and I damn sure aint no Uncle Tom. I won’t do it.
----MILES DAVIS (from his interview with Alex Haley1962)
I’ve never been on the cover of a Black Magazine----MILES DAVIS
Those who desire to serve the Negro people, must be prepared for criticism from his own race. I did not organize the universal Negro Improvement Association without calculating the cost, and the cost is ingratitude of Negros whom we are serving. Their ingratitude does not concern me one bit, Garvey will not be disappointed about anything. My work is cut out------MARCUS GARVEY (from his book called, the philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey)
Having had the wrong kind of education, the Negro has become his own greatest enemy. Most of the trouble I’ve had in advancing the cause of the race, has come from Negros -----MARCUS GARVEY
There is no doubt that the Negro is his own greatest enemy. He is jealous of himself, and envious, and covetous. This accounts for most of our failures in business, and other things-----MARCUS GARVEY (from a book called, Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons)
I was convicted and sent to prison not because I defrauded anyone, but because of the wicked enemies of my own race. I would not blame the few whites that contributed to my conviction, neither will I blame the Government. I blame the malicious and jealous Negros , who for the sake of money will sell their own mothers. My own Black people lied on me and I was sent to jail for 5 years. Our people are so wicked to themselves, and they are not satisfied until they are telling the enemies something about themselves-----MARCUS GARVEY (from the Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey)
We must realize that our greatest enemies are not those on the outside, but those in our midst. When we recognize the enemies on the outside, and do not allow them to pass. Then we have those on the inside working with us to destroy us, without our knowing-----MARCUS GARVEY (from the Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey)
I am not discouraged by what has been done to me. It is natural and to be expected. The enemies that I have are mainly of my own race, and they have worked long and hard to try and destroy me, but they have only succeeded in arousing the fighting spirit of millions of black men, all over the world----MARCUS GARVEY.
Negros threw eggs at me, when I spoke in New York ---DR. KING (from the Autobiography of Dr. King)
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