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" In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' "

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" When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity. "

Malcolm X

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" Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. "

" In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together. "

" You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. "

Malcolm X

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" Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. "

" If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality. "

" What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. "

" When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy. "

" 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. "

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Black

Republican

" I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. "

" Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. "

" Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

" Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power. "

" America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution. "

" The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. "

Malcolm X

Mistake

White

" You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. "

" If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. "

" The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever. "

" The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites. "

" You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. "

" We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath. "

" We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way. "

" In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. "

" All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man. "

" Stumbling is not falling. "

Malcolm X

Stumbling

Falling

" There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. "

Malcolm X

United States

Africa

" 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. "

Malcolm X

American

Brotherhood

" If ballots won't work, bullets will. "

" There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. "