Tag: Malcolm X
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That… was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about ‘white men.’
Malcolm X
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
Malcolm X
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, ‘Do they hate him?’ That takes a lot of nerve.
Malcolm X
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It’s got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you’re afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
Malcolm X
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America is the first country… that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
Malcolm X
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Malcolm X
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
Malcolm X
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcolm X
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Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
Malcolm X
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We won’t organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
Malcolm X