A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
MALCOLM XA race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
MALCOLM XOf all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
MALCOLM XI don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
MALCOLM XAnd just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
MALCOLM XThe 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 XI’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 XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
MALCOLM XIf someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
MALCOLM XWho taught you to hate yourself?
MALCOLM XSome things are better done than said.
MALCOLM XI believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
MALCOLM XMankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
MALCOLM XTruth is on the side of the oppressed.
MALCOLM XAll of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
MALCOLM XYou show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
MALCOLM XIf 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.
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