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Wells Quotes by Malcolm X
- Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
- I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to…
- They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice…
- 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…
- In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as…
- 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…
- 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…
- Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights…
- 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…
- 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…
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt