Malcolm X
American activist
Lived from: 1925 - 1965
Category: Politics Country: United States
Born: 19 may 1925 Died: 21 february 1965
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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A man without any history is like a tree without roots.
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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.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
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Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
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Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
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Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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For tommorow belongs
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History is not hatred.
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
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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 .
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