PROGRESS December 12, 1969 By Messenger Elijah Muhammad

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MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

D E C E M B E R 12.1969

"A people cannot exist freely without land, and the so-called Negro in America is evidence of that fact. The slave-master passed laws limiting the so-called Negro in land ownership or limiting the areas in which such purchases or even rentals could be made. Are you not left restricted to the poorer sections the slave-master is abandoning throughout America?

"All of this is part of the clever plan to discourage my people from wanting to own producing land for themselves and to cause a great dislike within them for

having

anything

to do

with

tilling, cultivating,

extracting and producing for themselves as other free and independent people. It is a shame! This shows you and I what white America is to us and just why we have not been able to do anything worthwhile for self.

They want us to be helpless so they can mistreat us as always. We must come together and unite. It is time!

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

"Let us capture the market of our people by producing their needs. We cannot produce our needs on the soil of another.

"Without some of this earth for a home that we can call our own, rest assured we will forever be 22 million begging slaves at the door of some nation."

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D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

"A HOUSE OF OUR O W N !"

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA

AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

"Let us UNITE, and think in the terms of NATIONAL BUSINESSES and to create black businesses for the whole nation here in America.

This would be of a greater help than one striving all of his life, and yet, not fulfilling his aims in private 7 business.'

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

" Brothers and sisters of the ec build a civilization for oursek you have and pile them togel bring them up into that which throughout the world." ^^^^^^

—The Honorable Elijah Muhammai

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

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cated class, let us unite and *s. Let us take all the degrees ler and protect our people and rill get them respect Messenger of Allah

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Messenger of Allah

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D E C E M B E R 19,1969

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

A G R i C U L T "We should and must, as other people, want for ourselves what other civilized nations have. Let us do for ourselves!"

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MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

LEARN "You

must know

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that

you have not been rightly civilized. No one can enslave another

who

has

equal

education (knowledge). My people lack science of the right kind. Allah is here to give you and me a superior knowledge of things and a country to ourselves.'

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

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D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

NEED A H O S P I T A L !

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must keep warning you that you

I did not get any answers from you on

should love your own self and kind to

one of the most vital things—a hospital,

prepare a place for your sick self—for

that w e should try to secure on the south

your wounded self—for your rest's sake,

side, to help the white people's hospitals

under the eyes of those who are prepared

to take care of our black sick and maimed

to help you again on the w a y to good

people as well as white."

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health. That is a hospital. I don't see w h y

D E C E M B E R 19,1969

MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

TO DO SOMETHING FOR SELF!" MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

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MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

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D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEA AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

"COME ALONG WITH ME, if you would iove to BUILD an economic system for our people under the name BLACK, which is adopted from me, by you, for the last few years. " I HAVE BEEN PREACHING BLACK for about 39 years. If you are going to teach my teachings and follow me, in the teaching of BLACK and BLACK DOING FOR BLACK, it would be wise of you to go along with me, for I HAVE DIVINE BACKING, while you have only yourself.

"COME LEARN FROM ME, and do something GOOD for our people, instead of robbing our people under a name

BLACK.

FOR A WOLF."

THAT IS LIKE TRADING THE LION

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MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

"Love yourself and your kind. Let us refrain from doing evil to each other, and let us love each other as brothers, as we are the same flesh and blood. In this way, you and I will not have any trouble in uniting. It is a fool who does not love himself and bis people. Your black skin is the best, and never try changing its color. Stay away

from

intermixing

with

your

slave-masters'

children. Love yourself and your kind."

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MUHAMMAD S P E A K S

D E C E M B E R 12,1969

MESSENGER MUHAMMAD'S IDEAS AS DRAWN BY E. MAJIED

"Today you are beaten in

build one of the finest and

city after city.... You are

best societies the world of

trying to force

yourself

man has ever seen if you

into white society. This is

will only be yourself and

your shame and disgrace

get

as a people in this modern

praying to be other than

time. Allah and the Nation

yourself—a

of

the white race.

Islam

will

help

you

off

your

knees,

member

of