I Have Been Blessed To

The Problem Facing Our People Here In America Is Bigger Than All Other Personal Or Organizational Differences. Therefore, As Leaders, We Must Stop Worrying About The Threat That We Seem To Think We Pose To Each Other's Personal Prestige, And Concentrate Our United Efforts Toward Solving The Unending Hurt That Is Being Done Daily To Our People Here In America.

At The Bottom Of The Social Heap Is The Black Man In The Big-city Ghetto. He Lives Night And Day With The Rats And The Cockroaches And Drowns Himself With Alcohol And Anesthetizes Himself With Dope, To Try And Forget Where And What He Is. That Negro Has Given Up All Hope. He's The Hardest One For Us To Reach, Because He's The Deepest In The Mud. But When You Get Him, You've Got The Best Kind Of Muslim. I Look Upon Myself As A Prime Example Of This Category - As Graphic An Example As You Could Find Of The Salvation Of The Black Man.

We Don't Think That We're Begging For Anything. We Think We're Demanding What Is Ours By Right. And All We're Asking For Is An Opportunity To Do Something For Ourselves, Rather Than To Sit Around As A Beggar, Begging For Jobs And Begging For Education From - For Someone Else For The Rest Of Our Lives.

Eleanor Roosevelt Could Easily Have Told Negroes The Deceitful Maneuvering Of The United States Government That Was Going On Behind The Scenes. She Never Did It. In My Opinion She Was Just Another White Woman Whose Profession Was To Make It Appear That She Was On The Negro's Side. You Have A Lot Of Whites Who Are In This Category. Therefore, They Have Made Negro Loving A Profession.

But They Don't Use Law-they Use Law For Their Interests. They Don't Go By Law, International, Federal, Local-nothing! They Go By Whatever Is Expedient To Protect The Interests That Are At Stake.