Malcolm X Quotes

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  We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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  Light, Understanding, Unity

  "Malcolm X: The Man and His Times" edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Africa World Press (p. 304), 1990.

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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

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  Hate, Lying, Media

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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

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  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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• A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

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  Motivational, Wise, Men

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• When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

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  Community, Wellness, Togetherness

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• If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

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  Healing, America, Ethnicity

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• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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  Life, Inspiring, Education

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  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic

  Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

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  Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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  Respect, Peace, Hands

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

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  People, Devil, Criminals

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 171), 2013.

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• It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

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  Liberty

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• If not now then when, if not me then who?

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  Ifs

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

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  Truth, Justice, Humanity

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books

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• I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

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  Friendship, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Speech in New York City, www.imdb.com. December 12, 1964.

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• I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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  Angel, Men, Devil

  "The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest" by Stephen Tuck, Henry Louis Gates, (p. 15), November 20, 2014.

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• Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

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  Wise, Men, Mind

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• Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

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  Thinking, Think For Yourself

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

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  Truth, Justice, Criminal Mind

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book byMalcolm X (p. 400), 1965.

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• The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

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  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin.

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  Believe, Thinking, Color

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• You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Democracy

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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  Thinking, White, Black

  "A Declaration of Independence" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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