Malcolm X quote: "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."

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM X

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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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't le...
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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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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.
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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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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...
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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'...
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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�...
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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?
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We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".
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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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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 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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Malcolm X

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.

Malcolm X

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