Malcolm X quote: "I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th...
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed...
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter wh...
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no...
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun...
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man,...
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary.
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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do...
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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 be...
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Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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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 hu...
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when th...
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today...
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no m...
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My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying ...
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being he...
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It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some bl...
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending bl...
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do yo...
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It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks...
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who do...
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If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring ...
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We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be give...
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of thei...
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who do...
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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. -Malcolm...
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use a...
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone ...
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Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or agains...
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty a...
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than a...
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites...
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years...
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Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily b...
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top alr...
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wro...
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed...
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold ...
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a ma...
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyin...
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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, ...
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody wh...
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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone wh...
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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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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send...
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. T...
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the...
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've alway...
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...
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If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one t...
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, c...
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man&...
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My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have i...
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you h...
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant bes...
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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 huma...
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in pris...
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...
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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...
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind ...
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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. I...
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that pla...
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A...
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
MALCOLM X

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, y...
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who...
MALCOLM X

America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but...
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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslav...
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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...
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching...
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was take...
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in...
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their ...
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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By any means necessary.
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We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters - Plymouth Rock landed on us!
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary.
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Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends ...
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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 y...
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If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and l...
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something whe...
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches ...
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state...
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, th...
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Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed...
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the u...
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Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you ...
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...
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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...
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And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...
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He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could ca...
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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 remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this eart...
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...
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Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time bef...
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, you...
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviol...
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the...
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; an...
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My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfyi...
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Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I a...
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Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the rea...
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had...
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I actually believed that after living as fully as humanly possible, one should then die violently. I...
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man'...
MALCOLM X

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence
MALCOLM X

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the pr...
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defense...
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the sa...
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All I had done was to improve on their strategy, and it was the beginning of a very important lesson...
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I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.
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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the ba...
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...
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We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be gi...
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme...
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his ...
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The old men had a set rabbit-hunting strategy that they had always used. Usually when a dog jumps a ...
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All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...
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Stumbling is not falling.
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إنني لا أحتمل شخصاَ لايحمل الساعة لأن ذلك يوضح لي إنه ل�...
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When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enoug...
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We all like chicken
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I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m f...
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لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان
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This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling...
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هنا يرقد رجل اصفر قتله رجل اسود في حرب رجل أبيض كان قد ق�...
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I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unit...
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لقد تعلمت باكراَ إن الحق لا يعطي لمن يسكت عنه, وإن على ا�...
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It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
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Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of wate...
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bot...
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And because I had been a hustler, I knew better than all whites knew, and better than nearly all of ...
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try agai...
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize th...
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... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to e...
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اذا كان الانسان مع الله كان الله معه وأرسل له عند الحاج�...
MALCOLM X

If you dont stand for something you fall for everything.
MALCOLM X

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?
MALCOLM X

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".
MALCOLM X

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
MALCOLM X

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he ...
X. DOUDAN

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
ALFONSO X

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended some...
ALFONSO X

Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, ...
MARK X.

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to...
X. WILLIAMSON

I can imagine my future and I can recollect my past. In my future, I am imagining my future and I am...
UNKNOWN X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

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Malcolm X

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

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