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Malcom X Quotes:

If youre not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your
vocabulary
He got the peace prize, we got the problem. If Im following a
general, and hes leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to
give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he
gets a peace award before the war is over.
An integrated cup of coffee isnt sufficient pay for four hundred
years of slave labour
We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.
Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend
himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent,
takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its
own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of
what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, theyll
create their own program, and when the people create a program,
you get action.
I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under
someone elses control. I feel that what Im thinking and saying is
now for myself. Before it was for and by the guidance of Elijah
Muhammad. Now I think with my own mind, sir!
I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many
well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic
zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than
I did. on those he encouraged to follow Nation of Islam leader
Elijah
That's our motto. We want freedom by any means necessary. We
want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any
means necessary
Rosa Parks
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for
what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone.
There were many others who felt the same way.
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about
freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind
not to move.
Martin Luther King
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. I have decided to
stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
A man who does not die for something is not fit to live
The time is always right to do what is right.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
matter

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