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" The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat. "

Malcolm X

Arts

Black

Earth

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" If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. "

" There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. "

Malcolm X

Religion

Nothing

" 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. "

" Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals. "

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

Malcolm X

United States

Africa

" Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. "

" 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

" 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! "

" My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster. "

" You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. "

" If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. "

" I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Integration will not bring a man back from the grave. "

" 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. "

" The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.' "

Malcolm X

Press

Going

" History is not hatred. "

Malcolm X

Hatred

History

" 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. "