Malcolm X Quotes

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

• Man
• Gun
• Brotherhood
• Hypocrisy

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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
  • Man
  • Gun
  • Brotherhood