Malcolm X Quotes
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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History is not hatred.
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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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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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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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White America is in the minority.
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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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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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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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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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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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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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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 don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.