Malcolm X Quotes

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.

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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Nothing
  • Now
  • Without

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Age
  • Know
  • Understand

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
  • American
  • Parents

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Security

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• 'Southland' is very real; it's not about who found the hair in the bed. There are procedural aspects to it, but it's not about that.

  

  Christopher Chulack
  • Real
  • Hair

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

  

  Jean Kerr
  • People

• 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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