Humans Quotes by Malcolm X

You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

— Malcolm X

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the…

— Malcolm X

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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Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs…

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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 believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

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One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as…

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White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with…

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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't…

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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common…

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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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The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes…

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I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that…

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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase…

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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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When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man…

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I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white…

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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 believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in…

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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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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from…

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We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights…

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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized…

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The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition…

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I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us…

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In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before…

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The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.

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Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should…

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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of…

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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm…

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It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture.…

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Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus,…

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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 human…

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The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on…

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If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right.…

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Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well…

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By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,…

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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 given the…

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[White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't…

— Malcolm X