"No nation respects a beggar."

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Source : Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.229, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

Elijah Muhammad

“I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.”
“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”
“If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”
“Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."”

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“Anyone know any long-term couples living three time zones apart?”

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“I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?”
“More people live off cancer than die from it.”
“On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.”

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