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Tell Quotes by Malcolm X
- We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we…
- Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how…
- When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat…
- They tell us we are all citizens, that we were born in this country. Well, a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that…
- To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
- I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come…
- When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever…
- Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall…
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