Messenger's Teaching on Voting

Cartoon (By Gerald 2X) Reprinted from the November 10, 1972 edition of Muhammad Speaks

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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