Malcolm X Quotes

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• You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
• Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
• Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
• Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes.…
• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it..
• WHEN “I” IS REPLACED WITH “WE” EVEN ILLNESS BECOMES WELLNESS.
• To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
• You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
• Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
• If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate…
• Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
• Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward -…
• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price…
• I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this…
• I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.
• So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to…
• If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.
• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self…
• I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
• Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

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