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You Quotes by Malcolm X
- You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
- Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
- Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
- If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
- If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
- If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
- You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
- Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
- If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club,…
- You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
- Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make…
- It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro.…
- 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…
- We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that…
- It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should…
- You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete…
- If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
- When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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