Malcolm X Quotes

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• The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not…
• The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like…
• We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach…
• Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out.
• A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture,…
• The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in…
• I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now…
• Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
• Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how…
• I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the…
• That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.
• I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm…
• I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to…
• I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to…
• The common enemy is the white man.
• An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.
• The price of freedom is death.
• Respect me, or put me to death.
• I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.
• When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black…

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