Malcolm X Quotes

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• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for…
• Stumbling is not falling.
• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
• Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's…
• Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
• Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
• America preaches integration and practices segregation.
• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
• If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club,…
• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
• 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 me.…
• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
• America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

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