#malcolm

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think it will be based on the color of the skin... ↗

— Malcolm X

#exploitation #freedom #justice #malcolm-x #oppression

I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time. ↗

— Malcolm X

#malcolm-x #malik-el-shabbaz #religion

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? ↗

— Mos Def

#beauty #being #expression #guys #i

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#because #course #elijah #god #honorable

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#atmosphere #been #believed #brother #came

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#assassination #early #having #i #malcolm

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#been #benefactor #confidence #death #die

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#change #could #former #hope #i

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#alive #boston #deal #emerging #freedom

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#another #gone #malcolm #malcolm x #movie