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Malcolm X Quotes about Revolution

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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

Malcolm X
Helping Others, Revolution, Helping

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Malcolm X
Love You, Enemy, Revolution
"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.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Malcolm X
Singing, Overcoming, Revolution
Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Malcolm X
Peaceful, Revolution
Malcolm X, Benjamin Karim (1971). “The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches”, p.137, Arcade Publishing

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

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

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Malcolm X
Powerful, Way, Revolution
"Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

Malcolm X
Country, America, Revolution

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Malcolm X
Peaceful, Revolution, Turns

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