Malcom X

Quotable quotes from Malcolm X: African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist.

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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…indictments of any one race. I am now striving to live the life of a true Muslim."

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…which I was blessed to receive as a result of my recent pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping…

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…these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt. Because of the spiritual enlightenment…

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"I am not a racist. In the past I permitted myself to be used...to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race and…

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"I am not a racist. In the past I permitted myself to be used...to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race and…

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…authority."

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"I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that…

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…Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."

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"I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the…

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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…country."

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"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this…

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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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…mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load."

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"We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic…

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Respect me, or put me to death.

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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…first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."