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Freedom Quotes by Malcolm X

54 Freedom quotes by Malcolm X

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Malcolm X says freedom isn’t a gift; you have to claim it yourself. He warns that the fight can turn into a bullet or a ballot, and that culture works like a weapon for the oppressed. He also reminds us that the struggle is a clash between those who hold power and those who are denied it.

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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

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You are either free or not free

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After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

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The price of freedom is death.

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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

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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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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

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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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It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

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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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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

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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 are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.

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I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom,…

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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight…

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You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom…

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There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not…

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We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation.…

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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land…

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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 oppressed today,…

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Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon…

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They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom…

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The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is…

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I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to…

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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising…

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Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of…

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When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire…

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The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You…

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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that…

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“You get your freedom by not being confined. You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get…

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We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We…

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It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't…

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I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach…

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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

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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…

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It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

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It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!

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It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death

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“Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.”

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Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

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

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

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