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Malcolm X Inspirational Quotes (405)

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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
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After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
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God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.
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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.
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Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.
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You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is teaching the black man, you're a human man.All you have to do is dignify yourself. You don't have to wait for any white man to recognize you. Recognize yourself. Love each other. Practice harmony and brotherhood among your own kind.
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Only the mistakes were mine.
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Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.
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Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion.
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Only the whites in the South aren't hypocritical about it. You don't find any more inter - there is just as much social intermixing in the South as there - between the races as there is in the North. Only they - in the South they let you know - where they stand, and in the North they take a hypocritical approach or attitude or reaction.
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Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.
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That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily primarily it described attitudes and actions.
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You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
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The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.
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The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.
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