Malcolm X Quotes
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History is not hatred.
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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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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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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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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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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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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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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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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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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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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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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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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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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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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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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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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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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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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.