Malcolm X Quotes

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• Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
• American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people…
• After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
• We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even…
• Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
• After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.
• How can you thank a man for giving you what's yours?
• Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.
• Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around…
• Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.
• Revolutions are never peaceful.
• Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights…
• I think the black man in America wants to be recognized as a human being; and it's almost impossible for one who has enslaved another…
• They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that…
• A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,…
• I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their…
• I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the…
• It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people…
• Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for…
• In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of…

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