A unique situation faces the black man here in America because of his unique condition, thus his acceptance of Islam and into Islam affects him uniquely ... differently than all other converts to Islam. Mr. Elijah Muhammad is our Divine Leader and Teacher here in America. He believes in and obeys God 100 per cent and is teaching and working among us to fulfill God’s Divine Purpose. What is this purpose? God’s purpose today (just as it was in biblical days) is the complete SEPARATION of the so-called Negroes from their slave master ... as the bible says concerning today: “Let every man be under his own vine and fig tree.” The best biblical example of this is the enslavement of the Hebrews in the land of Egypt under Pharaoh ... a free man and some slaves who were “strangers in a land not their own,” and how Jehovah chose Moses to SEPARATE them from their slave master. Since the slave master today declares his “former” slaves are free, Mr. Muhammad says that for the betterment of our future and that of our former slave master God has declared we also must be SEPARATED. To many of you here in this college auditorium, this sounds ridiculous; to some it even sounds insane. But 20 million black people here in America now number a nation in their own right. Do you believe a nation WITHIN another nation can be successful? Especially when they both have equal education? Once the slave has his master’s education, the slave wants to be like his master, wants to share his master’s property, and wants to exercise the same privileges as his master. This is the CORE of America’s troubles today; and there will be no peace for America as long as 20 million so-called Negroes are here BEGGING for the equal rights which America knows she will never grant us. Even the limited education America has granted her ex-slaves has already produced great unrest ... and Almighty God says the only way for America to ever have peace is for us to be SEPARATED from her ... and therefore Mr. Muhammad teaches us that we must have some land of our own. If we receive equal education, how long do you expect us to remain your passive servants, or second-class citizens? There is no such thing as second-class citizens. We are FULL CITIZENS or we are not citizens at all! When you teach a man the science of government he wants an equal part (or position) in that government ... or else he wants to be a master in that government himself. He demands equality with his master. No man with equal education will serve you. The only way you can continue to rule us is with a superior knowledge, or by continuing to hold equal education from our people. America has not given us equal education, but she has given us enough to make us want more ... and to make us demand equality of opportunity ... which is causing great unrest. Thus, the only SOLUTION is complete SEPARATION!