"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of...
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
~ Malcolm X ~
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which prod...
"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to ha...
"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell w...
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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
"The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they...
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
"And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have ...
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.
"I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between...
"Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too militant or too uncompromising a stand, are absol...
"Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
"We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.