Accepting Quotes by Malcolm X

12 Accepting quotes by Malcolm X

Malcolm X’s 12 concise statements on accepting are charged with a fierce drive for empowerment. Their directness challenges you to consider acceptance as a strategic step toward agency.

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Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his…

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People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because…

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The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when…

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[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people…

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The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend…

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This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in…

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I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept…

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I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who…

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Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life…

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The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh.…

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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people…

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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

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Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

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Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind…

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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and…

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I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and…

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Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

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Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables…

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Stumbling is not falling.

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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

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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…

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