Malcolm X Quotes

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• Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can…
• His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When…
• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds -- some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even…
• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it…
• There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blondes to black-skinned Africans. But we…
• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on…
• I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the…
• We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their…
• I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now…
• Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if youre not a citizen…
• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the…
• For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking…
• I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the…
• If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not…
• Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
• That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck.
• Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the...
• Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.
• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.

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