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More Quotes by Malcolm X
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
