I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. 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-youhatepeople 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 blackwhitethinking 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 lynchinghatemen You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X freedominspirationpeace You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution Malcolm X colorlongpeople 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 earthrightsmean They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they. Malcolm X flyingwingsbird Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself. Malcolm X think-for-yourselfthinking That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck. Malcolm X feetamericaworld You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy. Malcolm X democracyhypocrisy 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-everythingsacrificemean One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. Malcolm X one-dayunderstandinglight 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 mistakesleeppeople Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children. Malcolm X foolchildrenenemy Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. Malcolm X rootstreepeople 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 respectghettospiritual 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 justifiedlibertyway 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 blackpartymen 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 christianbelievethinking
