Malcolm X Qoutes
...stated
otherwise, they are all by Malcolm X.
By Any Means Necessary...
"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be
respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in
this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into
existence by any means necessary."
"Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means
necessary."
"The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes
that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized,
to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to
that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself."
Education, Students, the Youth...
"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the
people who prepare for it today."
"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 have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a
wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and
you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same
fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did.
Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made...."
"If you've studied the captives being caught by the American soldiers in
South Vietnam, you'll find that these guerrillas are young people. Some
of them are just children and some haven't reached their teens. Most are
teenagers. It is the teenagers abroad, all over the world,...
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