Malcolm X Quotes

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• The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to…
• When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever…
• How can anyone be against love?
• It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only…
• We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own…
• If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or…
• No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!
• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the…
• Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
• There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
• In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and…
• History proves that the white man is a devil.
• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer…
• My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie…
• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete…
• All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall…
• Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
• White America is in the minority.

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