Malcolm X Quotes

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• If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
• Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When…
• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever…
• You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No…
• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
• As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
• To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
• By any means necessary.
• Let's cool it, brothers.
• To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes…
• I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No…
• We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us".
• I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...
• I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be…
• To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
• I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you…
• True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and…
• I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves…
• I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of…
• I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from…

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