They charged Jesus with sedition. Didn't they do that? They
said he was against Caesar. They said that he was discriminating because he
told his disciples “Go not the way of the Gentiles, but rather to the lost
sheep.” He discriminated. Don’t go near the Gentiles; go to the lost sheep! Go
to the oppressed. Go to the downtrodden. Go to the exploited. Go to the people
who don’t know who they are, who are lost from the knowledge of themselves, and
who are strangers in a land that is not theirs. Go to the slaves. Go to the
second class citizens. Go to the ones who are suffering the brunt of Caesar’s
brutality. And if Jesus were here in America today, he wouldn’t be going to the
white man. The white man is the oppressor. He would be going to the oppressed.
He would be going to the humble. He would be going the lowly. He would be going
to the rejected and the despised. He would be going to the so-called American
Negro.
~Malcolm X
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