Tag: Malcolm X
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
Malcolm X
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If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
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You can’t legislate good will – that comes through education.
Malcolm X
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
Malcolm X
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
Malcolm X
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I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
Malcolm X
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Power doesn’t back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
Malcolm X
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If you aren’t 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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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light – jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
Malcolm X
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
Malcolm X