Malcolm X Quotes - Page 13

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• Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.

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  Attitude, Race, Hypocritical

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• 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.

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• Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

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  Differences, Long, Needs

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Justice, Might

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• We are about to have a racial explosion.

  Malcolm X

  Explosions

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I'm inclined to believe that most Negro leaders, professional Negroes are professional Negroes. Being a Negro is their professional, and being a profe - a leader is their profession. And usually they say exactly what the white man wants - wants to hear them say.

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  Believe, Men, White Man

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• The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

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  White, People, Islam

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

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• Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

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  Sister, Brother, Believe

  "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.

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• Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

  Malcolm X

  People, Rewards, Walks

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

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  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

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  Country, Attitude, Teaching

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

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  Country, Jobs, Children

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

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  Men, Done, World

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• I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

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  Believe, Rights, Judging

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

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• Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

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  Men, White, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

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  Mother, Father, Kids

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

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  Teacher, Lying, Justice

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

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• The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

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  Brother, Freedom, Blood

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• I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.

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  Running, Mean, Insane

  "The Ballot or The Bullet". Speech at Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.

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• Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here.

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  Civilization, People, Identity

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

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• You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

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  Uncles, Doctors, Class

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• It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

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  Inspiring, Country, Brotherhood

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.433, Ballantine Books

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• Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease

  Malcolm X

  Grease, Hinges

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.396, Ballantine Books

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• A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

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  Freedom, Believe, Men

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

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