Malcolm X Quotes

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• You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those…
• An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.
• Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease
• America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
• Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from...
• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
• I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come…
• This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if…
• Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never…
• We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land…
• You can't have capitalism without racism.
• No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy,…
• If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance…
• Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light…
• I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you,…
• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You…
• Who taught you to hate yourself?
• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
• Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.
• I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of…

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