🚀 go-pugleaf

black man cheap, if you don't think some day he's
going to wake up and find that it's got to be the ballot or the bullet.



l would like to say, in closing, a few things concerning the Muslim
Mosque, Inc., which we established recently in New York City. It's true
we're Muslims and our religion is Islam, but we don't mix our religion
with our politics and our economics and our social and civil activities
-- not any more We keep our religion in our mosque. After our religious
services are over, then as Muslims we become involved in political
action, economic action and social and civic action. We become involved
with anybody, any where, any time and in any manner that's designed to
eliminate the evils, the political, economic and social evils that are
afflicting the people of our community.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man
should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no
more. The black man in the black community has to be re-educated into
the science of politics so he will know what politics is supposed to
bring him in return. Don't be throwing out any ballots. A ballot is like
a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if
that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. 

The political philosophy of black nationalism is being taught in the
Christian church. It's being taught in the NAACP. It's being taught in
CORE meetings. It's being taught in SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee meetings. It's being taught in Muslim meetings. It's being
taught where nothing but atheists and agnostics come together. It's
being taught everywhere. Black people are fed up with the dillydallying,
pussyfooting, compromising approach that we've been using toward getting
our freedom. We want freedom now, but we're not going to get it saying
"We Shall Overcome." We've got to fight until we overcome.

The economic philosophy of black nationalism is pure and simple. It only
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