Malcolm X Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

  Malcolm X

  Medicine, People, Suffering

• The same thing that Uncle Tom did on the plantation before [Abe] Lincoln issued the so-called Emancipation Proclamation.I have no thinking on the matter. But he's teaching the black people to suffer peacefully, patiently, until the white man makes up his mind that you're a human being the same as he.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Teaching, Men

• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Intelligent, Suffering

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

• Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

  Malcolm X

  Leader, Suffering, Inferiority

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

• I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Peaceful

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

• I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, Years

• No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Practice

• 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

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