The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.


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