Malcolm X Quotes

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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 us adults are…
• I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a…
• Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form…
• If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a…
• America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
• The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first,…
• To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
• One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
• Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that…
• Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
• Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black…
• And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy.…
• And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.
• ... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.
• You are either free or not free
• They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
• When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this…
• Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the…

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