Malcolm X Quotes
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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.
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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.
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History is not hatred.
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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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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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A fox and a wolf are both canine, both belong to the dog family. Now you take your choice. You going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog? Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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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.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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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.
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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.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating 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.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.