🚀 go-pugleaf

am a minister, not a Christian minister, but a
Muslim minister; and I believe in action on all fronts by whatever means
necessary.

Although I'm still a Muslim, I'm not here tonight to discuss my
religion. I'm not here to try and change your religion. I'm not here to
argue or discuss anything that we differ about, because it's time for us
to submerge our differences and realize that it is best for us to first
see that we have the same problem, a common problem, a problem that will
make you catch hell whether you're a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a
Muslim, or a nationalist. Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether
you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell
just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch
the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man. All
of us have suffered here, in this country, political oppression at the
hands of the white man, economic exploitation at the hands of the white
man, and social degradation at the hands of the white man.

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it
does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're
anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him,
let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us. Whether we are
Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must
first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us
differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have
anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If
the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and
exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other
than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

If we don't do something real soon, I think you'll have to agree that
we're going to be forced either to use the ballot or the bullet. It's
one or the other in 2005. It isn't that time is runni