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.

  Malcolm X

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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  Ifs

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• Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

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  Children, Enemy, Educate

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• When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

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  Teacher, Jobs, School

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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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• I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

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  Men, Toes, Violence

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.431, Ballantine Books

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• One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

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  Light, Understanding, One Day

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• And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

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  Education, Learning, Mean

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

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• The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

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  Men, White Man, Use

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The only thing power respects, is power.

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  Malcolm X (1992). “February 1965: the final speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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  Respect, Believe, Color

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

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• In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.

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  Past, Men, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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