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Malcolm X
Malcolm X
"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
"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."
Malcolm X
Hate
Lying
Media
"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."
Malcolm X
Wisdom
Powerful
Print Media
"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."
Malcolm X
Intelligent
Thinking
People
"A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man."
Malcolm X
Motivational
Wise
Men
"That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck."
Malcolm X
Feet
America
World
"When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary."
Malcolm X
Believe
Mean
Justice
"When you hear me say "by any means necessary," I mean exactly that. I believe in anything that is necessary to correct unjust conditions-political, economic, social, physical, anything that is necessary."
Malcolm X
Believe
Mean
Justice
"If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies."
Malcolm X
Hate
People
Loving You
"The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change."
Malcolm X
Wise
Men
Mind
"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
Malcolm X
Mean
Rights
Earth
"There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
Malcolm X
Thinking
White
Black
"For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
Today
"For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
Today
"Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living."
Malcolm X
Mean
Sacrifice
Sacrificing Everything
"You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems."
Malcolm X
Love You
Enemy
Revolution
"They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they."
Malcolm X
Wings
Bird
Flying
"I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds ."
Malcolm X
Men
Color
Racism
"I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds ."
Malcolm X
Men
Color
Racism
"They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery."
Malcolm X
People
Independence
Slavery
"You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it."
Malcolm X
Freedom
Enemy
Way
"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
"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
"A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it."
Malcolm X
Order
World
May
"The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings."
Malcolm X
Men
White Man
America
"I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere."
Malcolm X
Thinking
Sincere
Best Things
"Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality."
Malcolm X
Land
Justice
Independence
"The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together."
Malcolm X
Past
Hands
People
"The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together."
Malcolm X
Past
Hands
People
"Stumbling isn't falling."
Malcolm X
Fall
Stumbling
"No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear."
Malcolm X
Country
People
Want
"When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing."
Malcolm X
Children
School
Grandmother
"If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it."
Malcolm X
Beautiful
Men
White Man
"The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history."
Malcolm X
Intelligent
Israel
Occupation
"Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research."
Malcolm X
Research
Rewards
Study
"Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research."
Malcolm X
Research
Rewards
Study
"I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his."
Malcolm X
Men
Toes
Violence
"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight."
Malcolm X
Powerful
Research
World
"Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient."
Malcolm X
Personality
Ingredients
Birth
"You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary."
Malcolm X
White
Community
Want
"You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary."
Malcolm X
White
Community
Want
"If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done."
Malcolm X
Running
Country
Kings
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."
Malcolm X
Country
Baby
Children
"Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?"
Malcolm X
Hate
Hair
Skins
"I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice."
Malcolm X
Thinking
Doubt
Liberty
"I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice."
Malcolm X
Thinking
Doubt
Liberty
"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
"Respect me, or put me to death."
Malcolm X
Respect Me
"It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."
Malcolm X
Liberty
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