If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a read more
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
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The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, read more
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
