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Malcolm X

Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska, was a prominent African American leader and influential figure in the Nation of Islam. He advocated for Black empowerment, self-determination, and racial pride during the civil rights movement. Malcolm’s early life was marked by ha... show more

quote icon The hustler's every waking house is lived with both the practical and the subconscious knowledge that if he ever relaxes, if he ever slows down, the other hungry, restless foxes, ferrets, wolves, and vultures out there with him won't hesitate to make him their prey.

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quote icon The greatest enemy a man can have...is fear.

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quote icon I am not anti-American, un-American, seditious nor subversive. I don’t buy the anti-capitalist propaganda of the communist, nor do I buy the anti-communist propaganda of the capitalist.... I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity (human beings) as a whole whether they are capitalist, communists, or socialists--all have assets as well as liabilities.... I am a Muslim who believes whole heartily that there is no God but Allah... yet some of my very dearest friends are Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists--some are capitalists, socialists, conservatives, extremists...some are Uncle Toms--some are black, brown, red, yellow, and some are even white. It takes all religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients (characteristics) to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.

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quote icon I'm not willing to sit and wait on God to come... I believe in religion, but a religion that includes political, economic, and social action designated to eliminate some of these [oppressive] things, and make a paradise here on earth while we're waiting for the other.

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quote icon You can't operate a capitalistic system unless you are vulturistic; you have to have someone else's blood to suck to be a capitalist.

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quote icon I do not advocate violence.... In fact, the violence that exists in the United States is the violence that the Negro in America has been a victim of.... I believe in taking an uncompromising stand against forms of segregation and discrimination based on race. I myself do not judge a man by the color of his skin.

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quote icon A man should not be judged by the color of his skin but rather by his conscious behavior, by his actions. I believe in a society in which people can live like human beings on the basis of equality.

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quote icon We must approach the problem as human first, and whatever else we are second

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quote icon Malcolm X came to the same realization: “The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.

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quote icon Victims of racism are created in the image of the racists.

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quote icon I, for one, believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what it is that confronts them, and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program.

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