Malcolm X Quotes
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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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.
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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 the next time.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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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.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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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.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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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.
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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.
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White America is in the minority.
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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.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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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.
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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.