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If 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.

If 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.

Hate, Lying, Media

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Light, Understanding, Unity

"Malcolm X: The Man and His Times" edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Africa World Press (p. 304), 1990.

The 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.

Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

"The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

Intelligent, Thinking, People

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Love, Inspirational, Life

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Motivational, Wise, Men

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Community, Wellness, Togetherness

If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.

Healing, America, Ethnicity

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

Life, Inspiring, Education

When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

People, Devil, Criminals

Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 171), 2013.

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

Respect, Peace, Hands

"Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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

Inspirational, Peace, Patriotic

Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

I'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.

Truth, Justice, Humanity

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.421, Ballantine Books

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Angel, Men, Devil

"The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest" by Stephen Tuck, Henry Louis Gates, (p. 15), November 20, 2014.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

Ifs

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Friendship, Believe, Men

"Biography/Personal Quotes". Speech in New York City, www.imdb.com. December 12, 1964.

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.

Party, Men, Black

Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.

Teacher, Jobs, School

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

Thinking, Think For Yourself

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

Children, Enemy, Fool

If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.

Hate, People, Loving You

"NYC Doubles Down on Petty Law Enforcement: Respecting Authority is What Democracy Is About" by Ed Krayewski, reason.com. July 28, 2014.

One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected.

Views, West, Use

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

Peace, Freedom, Inspiration

Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.

For tommorow belongs to those that prepare for it today.

Today

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

Wings, Bird, Flying

"The Egyptian Gazette" Newspaper, September 17, 1964.

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