You Are Either Free Or Not Free

Once You Change Your Philosophy, You Change Your Thought Pattern. Once You Change Your Thought Pattern, You Change Your Attitude. Once You Change Your Attitude, It Changes Your Behavior Pattern And Then You Go On Into Some Action. As Long As You Gotta Sit-down Philosophy, You’ll Have A Sit-down Thought Pattern, And As Long As You Think That Old Sit-down Thought You’ll Be In Some Kind Of Sit-down Action.

In My Opinion, Mature Political Action Is The Type Of Action That That Involves A Program Of Re-education And Information That Will Enable The Black People In The Black Community To See The Fruits That They Should Be Receiving From The Politicians Who Are Over Them And, Thereby, They Are Then Able To Determine Whether Or Not The Politician Is Really Fulfilling His Function.

Daring To Reach, To Climb, To Crawl, To Scratch, To Get Back Up When You've Been Knocked Down, To Push Forward - Ever Forward - To Forgive. It Means Sacrificing Everything If Necessary, To Carve Out A Place For Your Own Existence. It Means Living.

Don't Condemn If You See A Person Has A Dirty Glass Of Water, Just Show Them The Clean Glass Of Water That You Have. When They Inspect It, You Won't Have To Say That Yours Is Better." -said By Elijah Muhammad To Malcolm X

I Believe That It Would Be Almost Impossible To Find Anywhere In America A Black Man Who Has Lived Further Down In The Mud Of Human Society Than I Have; Or A Black Man Who Has Been Any More Ignorant Than I Have; Or A Black Man Who Has Suffered More Anguish During His Life Than I Have. But It Is Only After The Deepest Darkness That The Greatest Joy Can Come; It Is Only After Slavery And Prison That The Sweetest Appreciation Of Freedom Can Come.