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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

I felt very close to him and really wished to be able to love and honor him as a witness, an ally, and a father. I felt that I knew something of his pain and his fury and yes, even his beauty Yet precisely because of the reality and the nature of those streets-because of what he conceived as his responsibility and what I took to be mine-we would always be strangers, and possibly, one day, enemies
-on Elijah Muhammad

“ God had come a long way from the desert—but then so had Allah, though in a very different direction. God, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black.”

“The white man’s Heaven,” sings a Black Muslim minister, “is the black man’s Hell”

“But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?”

“But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?”