The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
From Malcolm X
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
History proves that the white man is a devil.
For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
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