Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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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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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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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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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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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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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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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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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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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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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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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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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.