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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 29

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If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the

If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.

Uncles, Dark, Trying

Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

Uncles, People, Leader

Instead of working for white man and helping him hold up a government that continues to suppress us socially and, and exploit us economically and oppress us politically, let us go and enter our own territory and use our own talents to uplift ourselves by our own bootstraps. And then he will recognize us for what we are.

Uplifting, Men, White Man

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

Thinking, Understanding, Enough

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Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

Doe, Young, Whitney

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10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

Kings, Fighting, Men

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Republican, Enough, Democrat

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

Problem, Concerned, Known

Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out.

Fire, Community, Burning

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Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison].

Intelligent, Leader, Reverends

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Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

Racist

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

Kings, Drs, Dr Martin Luther King

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If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

Men, Justice, Black

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

Eggs, Ducks, Afros

Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.

People, Together, Movement

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Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

Sound, Might, Trouble

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.

Organization, Two, Twenties

Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem.

Differences, Independence, Islam

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

Mother, Worry, Trouble

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.27, Ballantine Books

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

Organization, Movement, Ministers

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First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively.

Taken, Heart, Men

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If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.

Hands, America, Mind

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.

Law, White, America

"Lost Malcolm X Speech Heard Again 50 Years Later". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 4, 2012.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

Inmates, Prison, Propaganda

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Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband.

People, Prison

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