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African American Quotes by Malcolm X
- 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…
- Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
- 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…
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the...
- American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people…
- After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
- There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance…
- A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
- Stumbling is not falling.
- Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a…
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