Malcolm X Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Oppressed, Loving

• 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

• Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children!

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  Topics in Children, Enemy

  Tags in Teach, Fool

• 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.

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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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  Tags in Hurry

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

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  Tags in Books, Reading

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

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  Tags in Perseverance

• 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

• 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.

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  Topics in Mistake

• 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

• If you want something you better make some noise.

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  Tags in Noise, Make, Better

• 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.

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• I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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• History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

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• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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  Tags in Today, Prepare

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

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  Tags in Good, Reality

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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