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Now I have to research Marcus Garvey.

"I've had enough of someone else's propaganda," I had written to these friends. "i'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, the matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."

"It showed me how any country's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women--especially its young women. Wherever the spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by emphasis upon the material things, invariably, the women reflect it. Witness other women, both young and old, in America--where scarcely any moral values are left."

What makes the ghetto hustler yet more dangerous is his "glamour" image to the school-dropout youth in the ghetto. These ghetto teenagers see the hell caught by their parents struggling to get somewhere, or they see they have given up struggling in the prejudiced, intolerant white man's world. The gutter teenagers make up their own minds they would rather be like the hustlers...

Now he has me researching the fight between Sonny and Cassius Clay. I think I'm learning more than in class.

His shock at bring silenced by the Natuon and comparison to divorce is quite touching. Clearly a person who commits his whole self to whatever he is.

His discussion of international white politics fell flat. Nonwhite countries have definitely not banded together. Not sure there was a paradigm shift at all. Russia still through proxies, America still through proxies.

"it was like being on a battlefield--with intellectual and philosophical thoughts. It was an exciting battling with ideas. I got so I could feel my audiences' temperaments.

He is very angry about the first black march on Washington. "in a subsequent press poll, not one Congressman or Senator with a previous record of opposition to civil rights said he had changed his views." Would an angry non integrated cried have changed that? Or would it have made reaction against integration stronger?

Any intelligent, honest, objective person cannot fail to realize that this white man's slave trade, and his subsequent devilish activities are directly responsible for not only the presence of the black man in American, but also for the condition in which we find this black man here.