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A Curation Of Quotes By Malcolm X by disserious: 2:24pm On Oct 13, 2015
After tirelessly search for Malcolm X quotes on NL and reading through the forum, I could find none. Although I did find some post and comments concerning him, I cant but relate back at some of those posts;

The history of Malcolm here; https://www.nairaland.com/2581237/history-malcolm-x-great-american#37748788
and its other version here; https://www.nairaland.com/2391572/real-history-malcolm-x-no#34940834

Let me cut to the chase
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
— Malcolm X

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” — Malcolm X

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.” — Malcolm X

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” — Malcolm X

“Stumbling is not falling.”
— Malcolm X

“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X

“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.” — Malcolm X

“Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”— Malcolm X

“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.” — Malcolm X

“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.” — Malcolm X

“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” — Malcolm X

“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.” — Malcolm X

“I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else’s control. I feel that what I’m 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!” — Malcolm X

“The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in the divinity of Elijah Muhammad. We believed in him. We actually believed that God, in Detroit by the way, that God had taught him and all of that. I always believed that he believed in himself. And I was shocked when I found out that he himself didn’t believe it.” — Malcolm X

“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” — Malcolm X

“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.” — February 19, 1965 (2 days before he was murdered by Nation of Islam followers) — Malcolm X

“Without education, you’re not going anywhere in this world.” — Malcolm X

“…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 Muhammad — Malcolm X

“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.” — Malcolm X

“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.” — Malcolm X

“Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom.” — Malcolm X

“I want Dr. King to know that I didn’t come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King.” — in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King. — Malcolm X

“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” — Malcolm X

I love that last quote and I did wholeheartedly dedicate it to all Racist here on NL, I refused to mention names coz you all know yourself

Sauce:http://malcolmx.com/quotes/

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Re: A Curation Of Quotes By Malcolm X by jerryunit48: 3:14pm On Oct 13, 2015
"By any means necessary " Malcolm X

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