Malcolm X Quotes

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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 being, first and…
• So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
• A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
• Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what…
• Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to…
• It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream,…
• I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
• It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.
• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
• In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the…
• Only the mistakes were mine.
• You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll…
• We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
• Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over…
• It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have…
• People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
• I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.
• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse…
• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the…
• Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

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