Jerry Falwell Quotes

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Learn to love being black.

Our goal—a Racial Nation of and by ourselves—nothing less.

The Negro needs a Nation and a country of his own, where he can best show evidence of his ability in the art of human progress. Scattered as an unmixed and unrecognized part of alien nations and civilizations is but to demonstrate his imbecility, and point him out as an unworthy derelict, fit neither for the society of Greek, Jew nor Gentile.

We [American Blacks] are a nation within a nation, looking for a nationality

Black power means Black dignity

Our Luke Cage is a black hero, not a hero who happens to be black.

I love being black.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

Our [black people's] path is clear: We refuse to be inferior. We want to be exactly what Allah (God) has desired for us to be and we can't be that in their [white people's] house. We either have to take over their house or go and build a house of our own.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

Black people, we are not this monolithic group, you know?

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.