WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

Then you wonder why where you live is always a ghetto or a slum area. And where you and I are concerned, not only do we lose it when we spend it out of the community, but the white man has got all our stores in the community tied up; so that though we spend it in the community, at sundown the man who runs the store takes it over across town somewhere. He's got us in a vise. So the economic philosophy of black nationalism means in every church, in every civic organization, in every fraternal order, it's time now for our people to be come conscious of the importance of controlling the economy of our community. If we own the stores, if we operate the businesses, if we try and establish some industry in our own community, then we're developing to the position where we are creating employment for our own kind. Once you gain control of the economy of your own community, then you don't have to picket and boycott and beg some cracker downtown for a job in his business." Malcolm Ela Haji Malik Shabazz

"Slavery produced benefits for over two hundred years. Agricultural slavery was primary. But many Americans think of slavery only in terms of agricultural commodity production. In fact, slavery generated great benefits in orate ways as well. Slaves were used in manufacturing services and in activities that today would be regarded as the responsibility of municipal or state government, such as running transportation, utility, and emergency services. also vitally important, slaves cleared land and built infrastructure —roads, dams, levees, canals, railroads and bridges. 
It can be argued that without this labor the nation would not have expanded west as it did. Indeed, it is possible and perhaps probable that the United States would never have become continental nation. " Huey P. Newton