In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
("The Autobiography of Malcolm X")
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I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.Malcolm X
Speaking like this doesnt mean we are anti-white, but it does mean were anti-exploitation, were anti-degradation, were anti-oppression.
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I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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