Malcolm X Quotes

• The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading
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  Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.

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  Topics in Power

  Tags in Face
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  Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man you take it.

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  Tags in Good, Freedom
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  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

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  Tags in Oppressed, Loving
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  Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? you should ask yourself who taught you to hate being what God made you.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Texture
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  Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children!

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Children, Enemy

  Tags in Teach, Fool
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  You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

  Malcolm X

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  Tags in Good, Reality

• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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  Tags in Freedom

• We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. It landed on us.

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• It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.

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• If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison.

  Malcolm X

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• People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in People, Books

• You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Good, Philosophy, Hope
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  If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

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  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Integrity, Stand
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  Don’t be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn’t do what you do, or think as you think. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hurry

• My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Books, Reading

• You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Philosophy

• So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the word impossible.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perseverance

• The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

  Malcolm X

  Topics in Mistake

Malcolm X (47)

Birth:	19th May, 1925
Death:	21st February, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

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