Malcolm X Quotes - Page 21

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• If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot.

  Malcolm X

  Trying, Ballots, Ifs

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

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• They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Blood, Done

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• Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Jail

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• They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Kings, Jobs

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• If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Recognition

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• Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.

  Malcolm X

  Car, Dining, Massachusetts

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• Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Two, White

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• 10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Kings, Fighting, Men

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• Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, White, Political

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

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• That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions.

  Malcolm X

  Morning, Attitude, Mean

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.341, Ballantine Books

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• I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination.

  Malcolm X

  New York, Cities, Discrimination

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Let's cool it, brothers.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Dying, Last Words

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.438, Ballantine Books

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• The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Understanding, Enough

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  Malcolm X

  Peaceful, Revolution, Turns

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• My alma mater was books, a good library.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Reading, Library

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Only the mistakes were mine.

  Malcolm X

  Mistake, Mines

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• After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Black, Middle East

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Begging

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• 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

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• Any form of integration, forced integration, any - any - any effort to force integration upon whites is actually hypocritical.

  Malcolm X

  Effort, Hypocritical, Form

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• There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

  Malcolm X

  Men, People, Kind

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

  Malcolm X

  Eating, My Family, Poor

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• I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Believe, Prison

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

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