Malcolm X híres idézetei
Malcolm X Idézetek az emberekről
Malcolm X a börtönben az elítéltek között „halászott”, vagyis híveket toborzott az Iszlám nemzetének és annak vezetőjének, Elijah Muhammadnak.
Alex Haley idézi az interjúrészletet.
Forrás: Uo. Epilógus, 578-579. old.
Eredeti: I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Forrás: Uo. 516. old.
Eredeti: The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. "Malcolm X!" he called out-and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. "Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?" Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, "I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?"
Az integrálódott feketékről.
Forrás: Uo. 392. old.
Malcolm X idézetek
Forrás: Uo. 389. old.
Forrás: Uo. 291. old.
„F kioltotta N szeme világát, és azzal vádolja, hogy nem lát tisztán.”
Alex Haley idézi Malcom X egyik jegyzetét, melyet pl. szalvétákra írt le miközben elmesélte életét. Az idézetben szereplő F = fehér ember, N = néger ember.
Forrás: Uo. Epilógus, 549. old.
Forrás: Malcolm X önéletrajz - Alex Haley közreműködésével. Budapest, Európa, 1969. (Ford. Bart István, Hernádi Miklós) 46. old.
Tizenkét évig tartó muzulmán lelkészi tanításának lényegéről. (Elijah Muhammad az Iszlám Nemzete szervezet vezetője volt, mely szervezet lelkészeként munkálkodott Malcolm X.)
Forrás: Uo. 423. old.
Forrás: Uo. 387. old.
Képzeljék el! És a lámpa éppen zöldre váltott. Így feleltem: „Szívesen rázok kezet minden emberrel. Ön az?”
The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. "Malcolm X!" he called out-and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. "Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?" Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, "I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?"
Forrás: Uo. 516. old.
Képzeljék el! És a lámpa éppen zöldre váltott. Így feleltem: „Szívesen rázok kezet minden emberrel. Ön az?”
The next day I was in my car driving along the freeway when at a red light another car pulled alongside. A white woman was driving and on the passenger's side, next to me, was a white man. "Malcolm X!" he called out-and when I looked, he stuck his hand out of his car, across at me, grinning. "Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?" Imagine that! Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, "I don't mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?"
Forrás: Uo. 516. old.
Malcolm X: Idézetek angolul
“They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
Malcolm X on Zionism (1964)
Forrás: Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Kontextus: I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn't need any legislation; you wouldn't need any amendments to the Constitution; you wouldn't be faced with civil-rights filibustering in Washington, D. C., right now.
“We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us.”
Speech at Founding Rally http://www.panafricanperspective.com/mxoaaufounding.html of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964)
Kontextus: We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today.
Forrás: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 375
“Allah has blessed us. He has destroyed twenty-two of our enemies.”
Quoted in Julius Lester, "Look Out, Whitey!" New York: Dial Press, 1968. p. 138.
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Speech in New York City (19 February 1965), two days before he was assassinated.
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Forrás: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 163
That's how you can tell a house Negro.
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
January 1965, p. 216
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
"Twenty million black people in prison," in Malcolm X: The Last Speeches, p. 51
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)
Telegram sent to George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, during Rockwell's "Hate Bus" tour of the Southern US States, 1965. Quoted in an interview on January 24, 1965 and printed in Malcolm X and George Breitman, Malcolm X Speaks: selected speeches and statements, (New York: Grove Press, 1990) 201.
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