Malcolm X Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Men, Giving, Ballots

  "The Ballot or the Bullet". Malcolm X's Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, teachingamericanhistory.org. April 3, 1964.

• Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Freedom, Patriotic

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, p. 111, 1965.

• One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Respect, Ghetto

• I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Thorough Understanding, People

• Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

  Malcolm X

  Giving

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.327, Ballantine Books

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

  Malcolm X

  Mother, Teacher, Children

• The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution.

  Malcolm X

  Giving Up, Gun, America

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

• How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

  Malcolm X

  Gratitude, Men, Giving

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

• Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Successful, Giving

• Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Color

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the way to solve this problem is for the white man to give us some territory of our own. And then our people - we have technical know-how, we have agricultural know-how. We have been working for the white man in his business. In every phase of his government we work.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, People

• Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Unique

  "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.

• The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Law, Passive Resistance

• It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Men, Giving

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Color

  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. 174), 2013.

• I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Giving, Gone

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

• Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the nation to help us. We will encourage these young students to launch their own independent study, and then give us their analysis and their suggestions. We are completely disenchanted with the old, adult, established politicians. We want to see some new faces -- more militant faces.

  Malcolm X

  Independent, Ideas, Giving

• The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

  Malcolm X

  Baby, War, Men

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Giving

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the "Leader of the Free World" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Attitude, Men

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says number one, [Negro] must know - have a knowledge of himself. And this gives him confidence in himself. He - he has been brainwashed by the educational system that exists here in America to the point where he feels he was a savage in the jungle when he was - before he was brought here. And this destroys his morale.

  Malcolm X

  Educational, Numbers, America

• The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Land

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

• Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Self, People

• Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Men, White Man

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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