First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning."
Honorable Elijah Muhammad

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong, which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass

"African-Americans have not yet learn that no other people have continued worshipping another's God, especially their slave master's god or gods and freed themselves from cultural and physical genocide. Why should Africans and African-Americans be the only exception to this historic reality?"
Dr. Ben

"Freedom is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest, but as a conquest."
Carter G. Woodson

"Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system."
Professor James Small

"Whoever controls the images, controls your self-esteem, self-respect and self-development. Whoever controls the history, controls the vision."

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