The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing. Malcolm X More Quotes by Malcolm X More Quotes From Malcolm X If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X media hate lying We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X unity understanding light 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. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west. Malcolm X intelligent people thinking A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X wise motivational men The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X print-media powerful wisdom If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife. Malcolm X ethnicity healing america When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime. Malcolm X criminals devil people You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. Malcolm X patriotic inspirational peace When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle. Malcolm X teacher jobs school When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness. Malcolm X togetherness wellness community Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. Malcolm X respect peace hands If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Malcolm X inspirational love life Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X struggle mean children I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Malcolm X devil angel men The only thing power respects, is power. Malcolm X I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. Malcolm X truth humanity justice We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. Malcolm X self-worth firsts thinking It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come. Malcolm X grief light joy You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. Malcolm X revolution love-you enemy You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it. Malcolm X ifs dream
