Malcolm X Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
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“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
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“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.”
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“Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.”
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“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
-- Malcolm XSource : "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.
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“Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.”
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“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”
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“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
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“We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.”
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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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“One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.”
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“I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.”
-- Malcolm XSource : Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
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“America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.”
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“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
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“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.”
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“America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.”
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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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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“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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“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
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“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
-- Malcolm XSource : Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books
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“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality....”
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“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.”
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“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.”
-- Malcolm XSource : Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press
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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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“You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step”
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“There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
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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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“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
-- Malcolm X
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