Malcolm X Quotes

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• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
• Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an…
• Never allow your enemies to educate your children.
• Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile.…
• The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up…
• The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman
• It's liberty or death! It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody!
• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man…
• The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
• You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.
• Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our…
• The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in…
• The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
• Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so…
• But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to…
• America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
• I am not a Republican nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million…
• The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
• The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
• When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't…

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