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I Learned Early That Crying Out In Protest Could Accomplish Things. My Older Brothers And Sister Had Started To School When, Sometimes, They Would Come In And Ask For A Buttered Biscuit Or Something And My Mother, Impatiently, Would Tell Them No. But I Would Cry Out And Make A Fuss Until I Got What I Wanted. I Remember Well How My Mother Asked Me Why I Couldn't Be A Nice Boy Like Wilfred; But I Would Think To Myself That Wilfred, For Being So Nice And Quiet, Often Stayed Hungry. So Early In Life, I Had Learned That If You Want Something, You Had Better Make Some Noise.

-Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

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I Learned Early That Crying Out In Protest Could Accomplish Things. My Older Brothers And Sister Had Started To School When, Sometimes, They Would Come In And Ask For A Buttered Biscuit Or Something And My Mother, Impatiently, Would Tell Them No. But I Would Cry Out And Make A Fuss Until I Got What I Wanted. I Remember Well How My Mother Asked Me Why I Couldn't Be A Nice Boy Like Wilfred; But I Would Think To Myself That Wilfred, For Being So Nice And Quiet, Often Stayed Hungry. So Early In Life, I Had Learned That If You Want Something, You Had Better Make Some Noise.

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Never Have I Witnessed Such Sincere Hospitality And The Overwhelming Spirit Of True Brotherhood As Is Practiced By People Of All Colours And Races Here In This Ancient Holy Land, The Home Of Abraham, Muhammad, And All The Other Prophets Of The Holy Scriptures. For The Past Week, I Have Been Utterly Speechless And Spellbound By The Graciousness I See Displayed All Around Me By People Of All Colours.

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I Could See From This, That Perhaps If White Americans Could Accept The Oneness Of God, Then Perhaps, Too, They Could Accept In Reality The Oneness Of Man - And Cease To Measure, And Hinder, And Harm Others In Terms Of Their "differences" In Color.

Whereas The Only Real Solution To The Race Problem In This Country Is A Solution That Involves Individual Self Improvement And Collective Self Improvement In, Whereas Our Own, Wherein Our Own People Are Concerned.

I Believe That A Psychological, Cultural, And Philosophical Migration Back To Africa Will Solve Our Problem.

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I Have Been Blessed To Visit The Holy City Of Mecca.

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.

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.

No Black Person Married To A White Person Can Speak For Me!

Here I Am, Back In Mecca. I Am Still Traveling, Trying To Broaden My Mind, For I've Seen Too Much Of The Damage Narrow-mindedness Can Make Of Things, And When I Return Home To America, I Will Devote What Energies I Have To Repairing The Damage.

The Number One Thing That Has To Be Done, [black Men] Has To Be Retaught, Be Given - He Has To Be Reeducated And Made To Know That He's A Man, Like Anyone Else, And Then He Can Stand On His Own Two Feet, Like Others Have Done.

The Only Difference Between [america] And South Africa, South Africa Preaches Separation And Practices Separation, America Preaches Integration And Practices Segregation. This Is The Only Difference, They Don't Practice What They Preach, Whereas South Africa Practices And Preaches The Same Thing.

My Contention Is That If You Trace It Back, It Was The People Of The East Who Brought Them Out Of The Dark Ages, Who Brought About The Period, Or Ushered In Or Initiated The Atmosphere That Brought Into Europe The Period Known As The Renaissance.

When You Hear Me Say "by Any Means Necessary," I Mean Exactly That. I Believe In Anything That Is Necessary To Correct Unjust Conditions-political, Economic, Social, Physical, Anything That Is Necessary.

We Cannot Think Of Being Acceptable To Others Until We Have First Proven Acceptable To Ourselves.

22 Million African-americans - That's What We Are - Africans Who Are In America.

You Can't Hate Your Origin And Not End Up Hating Yourself. You Can't Hate Africa And Not Hate Yourself.

Adam Clayton Powell's Entire Political Career Has To Be Looked At In The Entire Context Of The American History And The History Of, And The Position Of The Afro- American Or Negro In American History. [he] Has Done A Remarkable Job In Fighting For Rights Of Black People In This Country. On The Other Hand, He Probably Hasn't Done As Much As He Could Or As Much As He Should Because He Is The Most Independent Negro Politician In This Country.

Don't Condemn If You See A Person Has A Dirty Glass Of Water, Just Show Them The Clean Glass Of Water That You Have. When They Inspect It, You Won't Have To Say That Yours Is Better." -said By Elijah Muhammad To Malcolm X

I Had Blind Faith In Him. My Faith In Elijah Muhammad Was More Blind And More Uncompromising Than Any Faith That Any Man Has Ever Had For Another Man. And So I Didn't Try And See Him As He Actually Was.

If You Are Not Willing To Pay The Price For Freedom, You Don't Deserve Freedom.

When I Said [ I Would Work With Any Organization] I Would Make The, The Reservation That I Would Work With Any Organization As Long As It Didn't Make Us Compromise Our Religious Principles.

We're Primarily Interested In Solving The Problem Of 20 Million Black People. And If Integration Is Going To Solve The Problem Tomorrow, Then Let's Integrate. But Since The Supreme Court Issued Its Desegregation Decision Seven Years Ago, And You Only Have About Six Or Seven Percent Integration Now, On An Educational Level, That Means That The Black Man Trying To Use Integration As A Means Of Solving His Problem Will Be Another 100 Years Just Getting Integration On An Educational Level.

Of All Our Studies, History Is Best Qualified To Reward Our Research. And When You See That You've Got Problems, All You Have To Do Is Examine The Historic Method Used All Over The World By Others Who Have Problems Similar To Yours. And Once You See How They Got Theirs Straight, Then You Know How You Can Get Yours Straight.

I Don't Have Any Hate. I've Got Some Sense. I'm Not Going To Let Anybody Who Hates Me Tell Me To Love Him. I'm Not That Way-out.

Wrong Is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It Or Who Says It.

When You Aren't Affiliated With Anything, And Then You Look At Something, You Look At It With Your Eye To The Best Of Your Ability.

Most Of The, Or I Should Say Many Of The Negro Leaders Actually Suffer Themselves From An Inferiority Complex Even Though They Say They Don't.

The Black Man In North America Was Economically Sick And That Was Evident In One Simple Fact: As A Consumer, He Got Less Than His Share, And As A Producer Gave Least. The Black American Today Shows Us The Perfect Parasite Image - The Black Tick Under The Delusion That He Is Progressing Because He Rides On The Udder Of The Fat, Three-stomached Cow That Is White America.

I Think That The Negro Should Reserve The Right To Execute.

In Harlem, For Instance, All Of The Stores Are Owned By White People, All Of The Buildings Are Owned By White People. The Black People Are Just There - Paying Rent, Buying The Groceries; But They Don't Own The Stores, Clothing Stores, Food Stores, Any Kind Of Stores; Don't Even Own The Homes That They Live In. They Are All Owned By Outsiders, And For These Run-down Apartment Dwellings, The Black Man In Harlem Pays More Money Than The Man Down In The Rich Park Avenue Section.

If The Emancipation Proclamation Was Authentic, You Wouldn't Have A Race Problem.

Emancipation Proclamation

There Were Always More Negroes In The Field Than There Was Negroes In The House. The Negro In The Field Caught Hell. He Ate Leftovers. In The House They Ate High Up On The Hog. The Negro In The Field Didn't Get Nothing But What Was Left Of The Insides Of The Hog. They Call 'em "chitt'lin'" Nowadays. In Those Days They Called Them What They Were: Guts. That's What You Were -- A Gut-eater. And Some Of You All Still Gut-eaters.

We Need More Light About Each Other. Light Creates Understanding, Understanding Creates Love, Love Creates Patience, And Patience Creates Unity.

[negro] Should Realize That He Is Living In A War Zone, And He Is At War With An Enemy That Is As Vicious And Criminal And Inhuman As Any War-making Country Has Ever Been.

My Alma Mater Was Books, A Good Library.

I Go For Mao Tse-tung Much More Than, Than Nehru Because I Think That Nehru Brought His Country Up In A Beggar's Role.

You Can’t Hate The Roots Of The Tree Without Ending Up Hating The Tree. You Can’t Hate Your Origin Without Ending Up Hating Yourself. You Can’t Hate The Land, Your Motherland, The Place That You Come From, And We Can’t Hate Africa Without Ending Up Hating Ourselves. The Black Man In The Western Hemisphere—north America, Central America, South America, And In The Caribbean—is The Best Example Of How One Can Be Made, Skillfully, To Hate Himself That You Can Find Anywhere On This Earth.

Racism Is A Human Problem And A Crime That Is Absolutely So Ghastly That A Person Who Is Fighting Racism Is Well Within His Rights To Fight Against It By Any Means Necessary Until It Is Eliminated.

The Real Names Of Our People Were Destroyed During Slavery. The Last Name Of My Forefathers Was Taken From Them When They Were Brought To America And Made Slaves, And Then The Name Of The Slave Master Was Given, Which We Refuse, We Reject That Name Today And Refuse It. I Never Acknowledge It Whatsoever.

As Long As You Are Convinced You Have Never Done Anything, You Can Never Do Anything.

It Has Taken Us That Long To Get The Deaf, Dumb, And Blind Black Men In The Wilderness Of North America To Wake Up And Understand Who They Are.

We Can't Teach What We Don't Know, And We Can't Lead Where We Can't Go

It's Easy To Become A Satellite Today Without Even Being Aware Of It. This Country Can Seduce God. Yes, It Has That Seductive Power; The Power Of The Dollar.

You Are Either Free Or Not Free

I Was Going Through The Hardest Thing, Also The Greatest Thing, For Any Human Being To Do; To Accept That Which Is Already Within You, And Around You.

If The Government Can't Get The Black Man Justice, Then It's Time For The Black Man To Get Some Justice For Himself.

There Seems In Most Countries To Be Either One Extreme Or The Other. Truly A Paradise Could Exist Wherever Material Progress And Spiritual Values Could Be Properly Balanced.

Learn To See, Listen, And Think For Yourself.

Think For Yourself

I Think The Only Way One Can Really Determine Whether Extremism In The Defense Of Liberty Is Justified, Is Not To Approach It As An American Or A European Or An African Or An Asian, But As A Human Being. If We Look Upon It As Different Types, Immediately We Begin To Think In Terms Of Extremism Being Good For One And Bad For Another, Or Bad For One And Good For Another. But If We Look Upon It, If We Look Upon Ourselves As Human Beings, I Doubt That Anyone Will Deny That Extremism In Defense Of Liberty, The Liberty Of Any Human Being, Is No Vice.

America Needs To Understand Islam, Because This Is The One Religion That Erases From Its Society The Race Problem.

For One To Control One's Thoughts And Feelings Means One Can Actually Control One's Atmosphere And All Who Walk Into Its Sphere Of Influence.

Where The Really Sincere White People Have Got To Do Their 'proving' Of Themselves Is Not Among The Black Victims, But Out On The Battle Lines Of Where America's Racism Really Is - And That's In Their Own Home Communities.

The Zionist Argument To Justify Israel's Present Occupation Of Arab Palestine Has No Intelligent Or Legal Basis In History.

The War Of Armageddon Has Already Started... God Is Using His Many Weapons. He Is Sending Hurricanes So Fast That [the Blue-eyed Devils] Can't Name Them. He Is Drowning Them In Floods And Causing Their Cars To Crash And Their Airplanes Cannot Stay Up In The Sky. Their Boats Are Sinking Because Allah Controls All Things And He Is Using All Methods To Begin To Wipe The Devils Off The Planet, [and] The Enemy Is Dying Of Diseases That Have Never Been So Deadly.

The Religion Of Islam Brings Out Of The Individual All Of His Dormant Potential.

Religion Of Islam

Despite My Firm Convictions, I Have Always Been A Man Who Tries To Face Facts, And To Accept The Reality Of Life As New Experience And New Knowledge Unfolds. I Have Always Kept An Open Mind, A Flexibility That Must Go Hand In Hand With Every Form Of The Intelligent Search For Truth.

America Preaches Integration And Practices Segregation.

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