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Malcolm X

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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.


— Malcolm X


#self-worth #freedom

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker


— Malcolm X


#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.


— Malcolm X


#action #impetus #inspirational #inspirational

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.


— Malcolm X


#side #truth #truth is

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace


— Malcolm X


#crime

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.


— Malcolm X


#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.


— Malcolm X


#defense #even #i #intelligence #self

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.


— Malcolm X


#knowledge #tolerance #understanding #tolerance

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.


— Malcolm X


#awareness #change #education #knowledge #revolution

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.


— Malcolm X


#change






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Another reason for the separation was growing resentment by people within the Nation. Kennedy the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba Congo leader of Medgar Evers civil rights leader and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham church. Malcolm X later said that violence by whites killed three of his father's brothers including one who was lynched.

For a dozen years Malcolm X was the public face of the controversial group but disillusionment with Nation of Islam head Elijah Muhammad led him to leave the Nation in March 1964. As a spokesman for the Nation of Islam he taught black supremacy and advocated separation of black and white Americans—in contrast to the civil rights movement's emphasis on integration.

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