America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. Malcolm X loving-you hate people There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. Malcolm X black white thinking You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X freedom inspiration peace You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution Malcolm X color long people For tommorow belongs Malcolm X today We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. Malcolm X earth rights mean They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. Malcolm X flying wings bird Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. Malcolm X think-for-yourself thinking That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck. Malcolm X feet america world You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy. Malcolm X democracy hypocrisy Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living. Malcolm X sacrificing-everything sacrifice mean One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. Malcolm X one-day understanding light The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. Malcolm X mistake sleep people Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children. Malcolm X fool children enemy Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. Malcolm X roots tree people One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values. Malcolm X respect ghetto spiritual Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again. Malcolm X justified liberty way 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 black party men I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe - the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah. Malcolm X christian believe thinking It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies. Malcolm X regret hate people
