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Own Quotes by Malcolm X
- I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as…
- Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle…
- Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way…
- 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…
- ... I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the…
- For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger…
- 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…
- Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
- Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward -…
- 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…
- The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
- I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their…
- It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people…
- 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…
- No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is…
- I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create…
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