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Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. -- Malcolm X
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary -- Malcolm X
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Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it. -- Malcolm X
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Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. -- Malcolm X
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No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain. -- Malcolm X
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The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history. -- Malcolm X
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Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet. -- Malcolm X
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment -- Malcolm X
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Someone has to pay. Somewhere, somehow, someone has to pay. When a snake bites your children, you don't go and look for the snake that has blood on it's jaws, any old snake will do. Any old snake will do! -- Malcolm X
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Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out. -- Malcolm X
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Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth -- Malcolm X
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba
yes Cuba too. -- Malcolm X
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A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. -- Malcolm X
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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did. -- Malcolm X
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself. -- Malcolm X
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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better.
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X -- Malcolm X
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I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was. -- Malcolm X
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I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir! -- Malcolm X
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace. -- Malcolm X
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. -- Malcolm X
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This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. -- Malcolm X
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker -- Malcolm X
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I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected -- Malcolm X
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. -- Malcolm X
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters. -- Malcolm X
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It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck. -- Malcolm X
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I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their 'differences' in color. -- Malcolm X
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I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug. -- Malcolm X
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I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into. -- Malcolm X
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When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it call itself? It's in a vacuum. -- Malcolm X
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You can't have capitalism without racism. -- Malcolm X
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. -- Malcolm X
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. -- Malcolm X
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The young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. -- Malcolm X
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Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that. -- Malcolm X
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Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past. -- Malcolm X
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And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me. -- Malcolm X
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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it. -- Malcolm X
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. -- Malcolm X
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. -- Malcolm X
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In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being -- Malcolm X
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To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. -- Malcolm X
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Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned ... I had never been so truly free in my life. -- Malcolm X
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How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this? -- Malcolm X
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The price of freedom is death. -- Malcolm X
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. -- Malcolm X
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I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land
every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike
all snored in the same language. -- Malcolm X
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. -- Malcolm X
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My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. -- Malcolm X
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I could spend the rest of my life
READING,
Just satisfying my
CURIOSITY
- because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about. -- Malcolm X
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape. -- Malcolm X
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The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight. -- Malcolm X
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The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing. -- Malcolm X
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. -- Malcolm X
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The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie. -- Malcolm X
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By Any Means Necessary"; "The Chickens Come Home To Roost". -- Malcolm X
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith. -- Malcolm X
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My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts. -- Malcolm X
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. -- Malcolm X
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ... -- Malcolm X
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary. -- Malcolm X
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When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation. -- Malcolm X
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These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation. -- Malcolm X
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The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. -- Malcolm X
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. -- Malcolm X
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education. -- Malcolm X
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It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation. -- Malcolm X
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. -- Malcolm X
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. -- Malcolm X
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A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds. -- Malcolm X
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I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. -- Malcolm X
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education. -- Malcolm X
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You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes. -- Malcolm X
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't. -- Malcolm X
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I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words -- Malcolm X
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We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load. -- Malcolm X
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. -- Malcolm X
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that. -- Malcolm X
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We all like chicken -- Malcolm X
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He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up. -- Malcolm X
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears. -- Malcolm X
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. -- Malcolm X
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It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter. -- Malcolm X
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If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself. -- Malcolm X
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You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. -- Malcolm X
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Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it. -- Malcolm X
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Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice. -- Malcolm X
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. -- Malcolm X
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Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door. -- Malcolm X
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They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object. -- Malcolm X
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise. -- Malcolm X
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We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude. -- Malcolm X
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Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created. -- Malcolm X
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. -- Malcolm X
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others. -- Malcolm X
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Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people. -- Malcolm X
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. -- Malcolm X
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They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. -- Malcolm X
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If you dont stand for something you fall for everything. -- Malcolm X
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All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did.
If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian. -- Malcolm X
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. -- Malcolm X
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In the United States, it is our weakness to confuse the numerical strength of an organization and the publicity attached to leaders with the germinating forces that sow the seeds of social upheaval in our community. -- Malcolm X
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. -- Malcolm X
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. -- Malcolm X
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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. -- Malcolm X
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children. -- Malcolm X
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks. -- Malcolm X
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Truth does not change, only our awareness of it. -- Malcolm X
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. -- Malcolm X
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If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate. -- Malcolm X
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I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything. -- Malcolm X
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If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. -- Malcolm X
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A woman should occasionally be babied enough to show her the man had affection, but beyond that she should be treated firmly. These tough women said that it worked with them.
All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength. -- Malcolm X
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We declare our right on this earth ... to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. -- Malcolm X
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. -- Malcolm X
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. -- Malcolm X
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Stumbling is not falling. -- Malcolm X
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A man curses because he doesn't have the words to say what's on his mind. -- Malcolm X
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness. -- Malcolm X
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I find it difficult [to believe] that ... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or ... hatred, because their own history and ... teachings are filled with it. -- Malcolm X
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Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. -- Malcolm X
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How can anyone be against love? -- Malcolm X
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I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do. -- Malcolm X
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We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces. -- Malcolm X
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Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible. -- Malcolm X
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All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union. -- Malcolm X
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It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared. -- Malcolm X
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I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. -- Malcolm X
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When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary. -- Malcolm X
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My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people! -- Malcolm X
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Do Your Best Work -- Malcolm X
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. -- Malcolm X
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. -- Malcolm X
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Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man. -- Malcolm X
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. -- Malcolm X
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything. -- Malcolm X
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I came here to tell the truth - and if the truth condemns America, then she stands condemned! -- Malcolm X
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity. -- Malcolm X
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My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds. -- Malcolm X
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms. -- Malcolm X
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party. -- Malcolm X
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. -- Malcolm X
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. -- Malcolm X
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The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing. -- Malcolm X
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New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody. -- Malcolm X
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. -- Malcolm X
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. -- Malcolm X
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There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Malcolm X
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Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research. -- Malcolm X
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses. -- Malcolm X
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He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black. -- Malcolm X
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks. -- Malcolm X
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An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor. -- Malcolm X
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America is the first country ... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. -- Malcolm X
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism
a human being is exercising extremism
in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner. -- Malcolm X
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. -- Malcolm X
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I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people. -- Malcolm X
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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. -- Malcolm X
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It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come. -- Malcolm X
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. -- Malcolm X
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Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding. -- Malcolm X
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What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do. -- Malcolm X
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Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself. -- Malcolm X
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world. -- Malcolm X
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Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated. -- Malcolm X
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The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself. -- Malcolm X
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Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again. -- Malcolm X
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the ... -- Malcolm X
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The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia. -- Malcolm X
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America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up. -- Malcolm X
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I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth. -- Malcolm X
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Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too. -- Malcolm X
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals. -- Malcolm X
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. -- Malcolm X
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I'm speaking from personal experience when I say of any black man who conks today, or any white-wigged black woman, that if they gave the brains in their heads just half as much attention as they do their hair, they would be a thousand times better off. -- Malcolm X
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people. -- Malcolm X
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I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King. -- Malcolm X
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So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves. -- Malcolm X
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself. -- Malcolm X
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I knew that Malcolm X had an almost fanatical obsession about time. "I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else , for this type is not time-conscious," he had once told me. -- Malcolm X
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How is the black man going to get 'civil rights' before he first wins his human rights? -- Malcolm X
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They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that doesn't make them biscuits! -- Malcolm X
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. -- Malcolm X
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Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job -- Malcolm X
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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath. -- Malcolm X
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Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease -- Malcolm X
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Let's cool it brothers ... Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times. -- Malcolm X
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.' -- Malcolm X
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I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials. -- Malcolm X
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color -- Malcolm X
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The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world. -- Malcolm X
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So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth-you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear ... -- Malcolm X
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I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you. -- Malcolm X
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America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner. -- Malcolm X
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It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death -- Malcolm X
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Respect me, or put me to death. -- Malcolm X
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Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion. -- Malcolm X
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Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him. -- Malcolm X
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. -- Malcolm X
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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -- Malcolm X
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America preaches integration and practices segregation. -- Malcolm X
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I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare. -- Malcolm X
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Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves. -- Malcolm X
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Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. -- Malcolm X
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca. -- Malcolm X
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Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage. -- Malcolm X
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It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary. -- Malcolm X
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A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not in reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. -- Malcolm X
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley. -- Malcolm X
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Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. -- Malcolm X
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing. -- Malcolm X
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No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country ... No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear ... -- Malcolm X
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Revolutions are never peaceful. -- Malcolm X
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Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways. -- Malcolm X
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Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually -- Malcolm X
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If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine -- Malcolm X
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. -- Malcolm X
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Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals- for the good of both. -- Malcolm X
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Soon now, as the Negro awakens a little more and sees the vise that he's in, sees the bag that he's in, sees the real game that he's in, then the Negro's going to develop a new tactic. -- Malcolm X
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Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits. -- Malcolm X
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Human history's greatest crime was the traffic in black flesh when the devil white man went into Africa and murdered and kidnapped to bring to the West in chains, in slave ships, millions of black men, women, and children, who were worked and beaten and tortured as slaves. -- Malcolm X
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere. -- Malcolm X
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose. -- Malcolm X
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[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready. -- Malcolm X
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It showed me how any country's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. -- Malcolm X
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I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority. -- Malcolm X
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Only the mistakes were mine. -- Malcolm X
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You are either free or not free -- Malcolm X
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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France. -- Malcolm X
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. -- Malcolm X
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The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth. -- Malcolm X
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I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his ... -- Malcolm X
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For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence. -- Malcolm X
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And concerning anything in this society involved in helping Negroes, the federal government shows an inability to function. But it can function in South Vietnam, in the Congo, in Berlin, and in other places where it has no business. But it can't function in Mississippi. -- Malcolm X
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. -- Malcolm X
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. -- Malcolm X
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It is not a case of our people ... wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings. -- Malcolm X
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. -- Malcolm X
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[My half-sister] Ella and I always were much closer as basic types; we're dominant people, and [my other half-sister] Mary has always been mild and quiet, almost shy. -- Malcolm X
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I would rather have a mule I can depend upon than a race horse that I can't depend upon. -- Malcolm X
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent. -- Malcolm X
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We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us. -- Malcolm X
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I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time. -- Malcolm X
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. -- Malcolm X
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A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan. -- Malcolm X
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Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities. -- Malcolm X
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I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind. -- Malcolm X
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change. -- Malcolm X
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No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! -- Malcolm X
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History proves that the white man is a devil. -- Malcolm X
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You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. -- Malcolm X
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It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man. -- Malcolm X
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed. -- Malcolm X
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Let's cool it, brothers. -- Malcolm X
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I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them. -- Malcolm X
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This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. -- Malcolm X
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We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours. -- Malcolm X
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We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves ... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves. -- Malcolm X
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. -- Malcolm X
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They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. -- Malcolm X
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We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary. -- Malcolm X
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I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.' -- Malcolm X
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. -- Malcolm X
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.. -- Malcolm X
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To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive ... -- Malcolm X
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I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else. -- Malcolm X
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! -- Malcolm X
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time. -- Malcolm X
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Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day. -- Malcolm X
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Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth. -- Malcolm X
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I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam. -- Malcolm X
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We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained. -- Malcolm X
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After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. -- Malcolm X
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Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz] -- Malcolm X
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. -- Malcolm X
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They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery. -- Malcolm X
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Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward. -- Malcolm X
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Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe. -- Malcolm X
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. -- Malcolm X
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Why is the American black man so complacent about being trampled upon? Why doesn't the American black man fight to be a human being? -- Malcolm X
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. -- Malcolm X
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. -- Malcolm X
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Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you. -- Malcolm X
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace -- Malcolm X
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If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. -- Malcolm X
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Who taught you to hate yourself? -- Malcolm X
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I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation. -- Malcolm X
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I am a Muslim and ... my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds . -- Malcolm X
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If ballots won't work, bullets will. -- Malcolm X
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Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee. -- Malcolm X
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A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched. -- Malcolm X
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The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition. -- Malcolm X
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. -- Malcolm X
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We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us. -- Malcolm X
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from ... -- Malcolm X
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Standing there by that Harvard window, I silently vowed to Allah that I never would forget that any
wings I wore had been put on by the religion of Islam. That fact I never have forgotten ... not for
one second. -- Malcolm X
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. -- Malcolm X
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That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck. -- Malcolm X
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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar. -- Malcolm X
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One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected. -- Malcolm X
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. -- Malcolm X
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. -- Malcolm X
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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. -- Malcolm X
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. -- Malcolm X
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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth! -- Malcolm X
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She threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take (have sex with) her she would swear he tried rape.
He had no choice, except that he quit working for them. And from then until she finished high school,
she managed it several times with other Negroes -- Malcolm X
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The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology -- Malcolm X
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Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle. -- Malcolm X
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. -- Malcolm X
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. -- Malcolm X
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If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity. -- Malcolm X
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I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence. -- Malcolm X
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It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. -- Malcolm X
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. -- Malcolm X
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If not now then when, if not me then who? -- Malcolm X
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It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody! -- Malcolm X
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Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me ... I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do. -- Malcolm X
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America's racism is among their own fellow whites. That's where sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. -- Malcolm X
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. -- Malcolm X
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The only thing power respects, is power. -- Malcolm X
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races. -- Malcolm X
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves. -- Malcolm X
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. -- Malcolm X
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WHEN "I" IS REPLACED WITH "WE" EVEN ILLNESS BECOMES WELLNESS. -- Malcolm X
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Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave. -- Malcolm X
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't. -- Malcolm X
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man. -- Malcolm X
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. -- Malcolm X
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You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself. -- Malcolm X
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We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights. -- Malcolm X
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down. -- Malcolm X
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My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws. -- Malcolm X
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The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman. -- Malcolm X
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. -- Malcolm X
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.' -- Malcolm X
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In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white. -- Malcolm X
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My sincerity is my credentials. -- Malcolm X
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Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. -- Malcolm X
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Never allow your enemies to educate your children. -- Malcolm X
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We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us. -- Malcolm X
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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system ... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them ... -- Malcolm X
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It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man. -- Malcolm X
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. -- Malcolm X
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years. -- Malcolm X
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. -- Malcolm X
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The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! -- Malcolm X
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When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him. -- Malcolm X
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In the ghettoes the white man has built for us, he has forced us not to aspire to greater things, but to view everyday living as survival-and in that kind of a community, survival is what is respected. -- Malcolm X
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History is not hatred. -- Malcolm X
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Time is more important to me then distance -- Malcolm X
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When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison. -- Malcolm X
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I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I expected then as I still expect today -- Malcolm X
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. -- Malcolm X
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That ... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' -- Malcolm X
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The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings. -- Malcolm X
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master. -- Malcolm X
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I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. -- Malcolm X
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. -- Malcolm X
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Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did:
Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight. -- Malcolm X
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That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. -- Malcolm X
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The common enemy is the white man. -- Malcolm X
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WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR?
WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN? ... -- Malcolm X
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. -- Malcolm X
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I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. -- Malcolm X
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We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go -- Malcolm X
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. -- Malcolm X
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When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest. -- Malcolm X
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Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent. -- Malcolm X
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. -- Malcolm X
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The collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man. -- Malcolm X
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There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced. -- Malcolm X
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Anything I do today, I regard as urgent. -- Malcolm X
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We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. -- Malcolm X
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. -- Malcolm X
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I don't feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home. -- Malcolm X
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If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot. -- Malcolm X
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As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together. -- Malcolm X
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. -- Malcolm X
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the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much. -- Malcolm X
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It takes two to tango; when I go, you go. -- Malcolm X
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True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. -- Malcolm X
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No one will know who we are ... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are! -- Malcolm X
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One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book. -- Malcolm X
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As testimony to the power of redemption and the force of human personality, the autobiography of Malcolm X is a revelation. -- Malcolm X
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. -- Malcolm X
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Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist. -- Malcolm X
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The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else. -- Malcolm X
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The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And -- Malcolm X
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come -- Malcolm X
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The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth. -- Malcolm X
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By any means necessary. -- Malcolm X
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Never ask a woman about other men.
Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place. -- Malcolm X
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours? -- Malcolm X
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I have wife who understands, or even if she doesn't she at least pretends. -- Malcolm X
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I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism. -- Malcolm X
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For tommorow belongs
to those that prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
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A man without any history is like a tree without roots -- Malcolm X
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It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country. -- Malcolm X
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now. -- Malcolm X
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Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. -- Malcolm X
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. -- Malcolm X
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Growing is the result of learning. -- Malcolm X
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As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her. -- Malcolm X
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White America is in the minority. -- Malcolm X
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If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it. -- Malcolm X
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My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes. -- Malcolm X
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If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. -- Malcolm X
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After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you. -- Malcolm X
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But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake. -- Malcolm X
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If you are Black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you are South of the Canadian border, you are South. -- Malcolm X
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. -- Malcolm X
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No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself. -- Malcolm X
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Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick. -- Malcolm X
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You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. -- Malcolm X