Messenger Elijah Muhammad’s Teaching on Voting
Messenger’s Teaching on Voting
Cartoon (By Gerald 2X) Reprinted from the November 10, 1972 edition of
Muhammad Speaks
“You Really Haven’t a Choice — It’s Just a Matter of Which Size Devil
Appeals to You.”
The Following Words are of Messenger Elijah Muhammad from the 1964 Laborers Meeting
(Available on Audio Cassette Tape)
“The President that is already in the White House and the one that might
come in there, they both are the same. Remember that! They, both, are
about the same Goldwater or Silverwater.
I saw in one of the New York papers where that the devil said that I
wanted Goldwater to win. I would like to tell him that it don’t make no
difference to me whether Gold or Silver or Brass win. If he’s white they
are all the same. I’m not going to vote for either one because I can’t
see my way in voting for an enemy to rule me. And I want independence. I
want to vote for myself and my people. I don’t want to vote for you, who
is going to enslave me. It’s almost a disgrace. A man seeking
independence and then he goes and vote for the enemy to rule him.
There is many little common things in it that we have heard our people
say that make you might think that it’s nice that you do so for certain
privileges. This is not no good to us. Anytime the devil, gives to you
anything like, I would say, better way to go, he’s got you tied in such a
manner that you have to mistreat your own people. And he has a better way
to mistreat them himself as long as he puts a rosy in your hand. And he’s
not going to put one in your hand, unless he’s able to get something
back. You see he don’t put one in my hand! He dosen’t offer me nothing.
He would do so if he thought I would accept it. But he has heard such
strong language coming from me, he says, “No, no that fool will never
accept… so we have to get him another way.”
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