Elijah Muhammad - Message to the Blackman in America (1965)

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Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

Elijah Muhammad

Not knowing "self" or anyone else, they [black people] are prey in the hands of the white race, the world's archdeceivers (the real devils in person).

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Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

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One of the gravest handicaps among the so-called Negroes is that there is no love for self, nor love for his or her own kind. This not having love for self is the root cause of hate.... How can you be loved if you have not love for self and your own nation and dislike being a member of your own?... What nation will trust your love and membership?

Elijah Muhammad