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Malcolm X Quotes - Page 5

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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

Freedom, Enemy, Way

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

Rain, Doors, Hands

Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Mistake, Believe, Fall

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Peace, Gun, Sometimes

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

Men, White Man, America

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.378, Ballantine Books

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

African American, Watches, Sitting

"The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Men, Toes, Violence

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.431, Ballantine Books

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

Book, Asking Questions, Alma Mater

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

Lying, Men, Over You

"The Autobiography of Malcolm X".

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

Medicine, People, Suffering

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

Attitude, Philosophy, Thinking

"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.

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

Order, World, May

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .

Men, Color, Racism

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Long, Done, Convinced

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Children, Fear, Trying

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.472, Ballantine Books

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.

Life, Ignorance, Past

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

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Intelligent, Israel, Occupation

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.

Mistake, Struggle, Men

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Life, Education, Book

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.

Color, Long, Earth

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

Mankind'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.

Spiritual, Love Is, Men

Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.375, Ballantine Books

... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.

Spiritual, Attitude, Weakness

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

Betrayal, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Liberty

"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.

It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Vocabulary, Liberty, Use

"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.

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