Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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History is not hatred.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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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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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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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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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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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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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 hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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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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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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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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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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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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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.