Malcolm X Quotes

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• I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.
• If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right…
• Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
• If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
• When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I…
• ... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the…
• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
• My alma mater was books, a good library.
• What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists.…
• We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we…
• ...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front…
• When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's…
• Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do…
• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.
• When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
• I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking…
• A man without any history is like a tree without roots
• The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.
• I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having…
• It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

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