Muhammad Speaks #1032
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Muhammad Speaks
The Messenger of A
SEPARATION IS
OUR SALVATION
teaches us that no people on earth
fit the Bible's symbolic picture about
the Lost Sheep more so than America's
twenty million so-called Negroes and
there has never in history been a more
vicious and blood-thirsty wolf than the
American White man. He teaches us
that for four hundred years America
has been nothing but a wolves den
for twenty million so-called Negroes,
twenty million second-class citizens,
and this Black revolution that is deve-
loping against the White wolf today is
developing because The Honorable
Elijah Muhammad, a godsent shepherd,
has opened the eyes of our people.
And the Black masses can now see
that we have all been here in this
White doghouse long, too long. The
Black masses don't want segregation
nor de we want integration .
What we want is complete separation.
In short, we don't want to be integ-
rated with the White man, we want to
be separated from the White man.
And now our religious leader and
teacher, The Honorable Elijah
Muhammad, teaches us that this is the
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and Black kind. THE DUTY of the BLACK
MAN IS self-preservation. EVERY LIFE
that is created on the planet earth has a
duty. It is bound to this duty, by nature,
to do something for self. THE ONCE slave
Black Man in America -- enslaved by the
white people, his white slave master and
enemy, made the Black Man a subject
and keeps him a subject by depriving the
Black Man of the knowledge of self and
the doing for self. These are the two most
hated things which the white man hates
to have come to the Black Man -- the
freedom to DO something for Black self
and the freedom to THINK for his Black
self. He hates for the Black Man to be a
visionary for his Black self. He hates for
the Black Man to control ideas that will
produce recognizable constructive plans
and doing for Black self.
We are just entering into a day and time that
we should have had 100 years ago. AS
YOU SEE, my Followers and myself try the
utmost to do something for self and this is
hated by white America. We are an
example for the Black People here in
America who wish to try and do some-
thing for self Whites are angry
Muhammad Speaks was the title of one of the largest publications ever produced by Black people in the United States. Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad began the paper in 1961, it's first issue bearing the title, "Some Of This Earth To Call Our Own Or Else". Like all newspapers, it covered current events in the world, as well as relevant news in African American communities and within the Nation of Islam. The paper was sold door to door by Nation of Islam members and in the temples of the Nation of Islam. According to famous black rights activist Malcolm X in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, was originally created by Malcolm X himself, although this hasn't been confirmed. What has been confirmed is that Malcolm did help in the start of a local paper in New York City, entitled "Mr. Muhammad Speaks", not to be confused with the national paper "Muhammad Speaks". However by that time, Elijah Muhammad had used several literary vehicles to get his words to the majority of the Black population, the most well-known being the "Pittsburgh Courier". The men of the Nation of Islam, during this period greatly increased the distribution of the "Pittsburgh Courier" because it contained the messages of Elijah Muhammad.
