American - Activist | May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
Malcolm X
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'
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My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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