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Malcolm X amerikai muzulmán pap, fekete nacionalista, emberjogi aktivista. Hívei az afroamerikaiak jogaiért fáradhatatlanul küzdő embernek tartották, aki a lehető legkeményebb szavakkal kritizálta a fehér amerikaiakat a feketék ellen elkövetett sérelmek miatt. Kritikusai azzal vádolják, hogy beszédeiben rasszista nézeteket vallott és erőszakra buzdított. A 20. századi amerikai történelem egyik legmeghatározóbb afroamerikai személye. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. május 1925 – 21. február 1965   •   Más nevek Malcolm Little
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Malcolm X: 206   idézetek 29   Kedvelés

Malcolm X híres idézetei

„Számomra a halálnál is rosszabb az árulás. Tudod, a halált el tudnám képzelni, de az árulást nem.”

Malcolm X

„Az oktatás az útlevelünk a jövőbe, mert a holnap azoké az embereké, akik ma készülnek rá.”

Malcolm X

„Szabadságot követelünk bármilyen áron. Igazságot követelünk bármilyen áron. Egyenlőséget követelünk bármilyen áron.”

Malcolm X

„Ha nem vigyázol, az újságok rávesznek, hogy gyűlöld azokat, akiket elnyomnak, és szeresd azokat, akik az elnyomást gyakorolják.”

Malcolm X

„Azt a szót, hogy „integráció”, valamelyik északi liberális ötölte ki. Ennek a szónak egy fikarcnyi értelme sincs. (…) A ravasz északi liberálisok ezzel a füstfüggönnyel akarják elfátyolozni az amerikai négerek igazi követeléseit.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 392. old.

„Azért szenteltem szabad időm javát ennek a könyvnek, mert úgy érzem, és úgy remélem, hogy ha becsületesen és a részletekre kiterjedően beszámolok életemről, akkor ez a tárgyilagos olvasó számára társadalmi szempontból is értékes dokumentum lehet.”

Malcolm X

Önéletrajzáról.
Forrás: Uo. 536. old.

Malcolm X Idézetek az emberekről

„Ha valamelyik már érett volt — ezt meg tudtam állapítani —, akkor el vele a többiek közül, és beléje cspögtettem Mr. Muhammad tanítását: „A fehér ember az ördög.””

Malcolm X

Malcolm X a börtönben az elítéltek között „halászott”, vagyis híveket toborzott az Iszlám nemzetének és annak vezetőjének, Elijah Muhammadnak.

„Riporter: „Jól értettük? Ön már nem hiszi azt, hogy minden fehér ember gonosz?”Malcolm X: „Jól. Mekkai utam felnyitotta a szememet. Most már nem vagyok híve a fajok közti gyűlöletnek. Gondolkodásom annyira megváltozott, hogy már hiszek benne: a fehérek is emberek, ha ezt a négerekkel szemben tanusított humánus magatartásukkal bizonyítják.””

Malcolm X

Alex Haley idézi az interjúrészletet.
Forrás: Uo. Epilógus, 578-579. old.

„Elegem volt a mások propagandájából. Én az igazság oldalán állok, akárki hirdeti is. Elsősorban ember vagyok, és mint ember mindent és mindenkit pártolok, ami és aki az emberiség egészét segíti.”

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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.

„Lehetséges, hogy szavaim sok embert megdöbbentenek. De zarándokutam során sok mindent láttam és tapasztaltam - újra kellett rendeznem eddigi ítéleteimet, el kellett vetnem számos eddigi következtetésemet.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 485. old.

„Másnap kocsiban ültem, és egy piros lámpa megállásra kényszerített. Egy kocsi állt mellém. Fehér nő vezette, és mellette, vagyis hozzám közelebb, egy fehér ember ült. „Malcolm X!”, kiáltott át hozzám. Mikor odafordultam, mosolyogva nyújtotta felém a kezét. „Hajlandó kezet rázni egy fehér emberrel?” Képzeljék el! És a lámpa éppen zöldre váltott. Így feleltem: „Szívesen rázok kezet minden emberrel. Ön az?””

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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?"

„Ezek a négerek a fehér ember fáradhatatlan talpnyalói: ezek a „kiválasztott” négerek fehérebbek a fehérnél, jobban gyűlölik a fekete embert, mint maguk a fehérek.”

Malcolm X

Az integrálódott feketékről.
Forrás: Uo. 392. old.

Malcolm X idézetek

„A muzulmán vallás színvak, de színvak a muzulmán társadalom is: ez a két gondolat egyre mélyebb nyomot hagyott agyamban, egyre jobban eltérített régi gondolkodásmódomtól.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 483. old.

Vallás

„A halál gondolata egyáltalán nem zaklat fel annyira, mint másokat. Soha nem számítottam arra, hogy megérem az öregkort.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 535. old.

Halál

„A négereknek igenis megvan az okuk arra, hogy bojkottálják a hadba vonulást. Miért menjünk el valahova, hogy meghaljunk egy olyan demokráciáért, amely egy, néhány órája partra szállt fehér bevándorlónak több jogot biztosít, mint a négyszáz éve véres verejtékkel szolgáló négernek?”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 389. old.

Demokrácia

„A muzulmánok „X”-e eredeti afrikai nevük helyett áll, melyet soha nem ismerhetnek meg. Az én „X”-em a „Little” fehér rabszolgatartó név helyébe került, melyet valami kék szemű, Little nevű ördög erőszakolt rá atyai őseimre. (…) Mr. Muhammad azt tanította, hogy addig fogjuk viselni ezt az „X”-et, amíg nem tér vissza maga az Isten, és szentséges szájából Ő maga ad nekünk szent nevet.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 291. old.

Isten

„Agyamat sohasem zártam el az új elől, ez elengedhetetlen ahhoz a rugalmassághoz, amely minden értelmes igazságkeresés követelménye.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 485. old.

„F kioltotta N szeme világát, és azzal vádolja, hogy nem lát tisztán.”

Malcolm X

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.

Világ

„Ha bármikor azt látod, hogy valaki sikeresebb nálad, különösen, ha mindketten ugyanazzal foglalkoztok, akkor biztos lehetsz benne, hogy olyasmit csinál, amit te nem.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Malcolm X önéletrajz - Alex Haley közreműködésével. Budapest, Európa, 1969. (Ford. Bart István, Hernádi Miklós) 46. old.

Tea

„Tanításom leglényege, saját rendíthetetlen meggyőződésem volt, hogy Elijah Muhammad élete minden megnyilvánulásában az amerikai négerség erkölcsi, szellemi és lelki megújhodásának a jelképe.”

Malcolm X

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.

életkor

„Igen, meggyőződtem róla, hogy vannak olyan amerikai fehérek, akik szívesen segítenének a dühöngő fajgyűlölet megfékezésében; a fajgyűlölet miatt ez az ország egyre közelebb kerül a pusztuláshoz!”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 515. old.

„A lelkem mélyén meg voltam róla győződve, hogy annak, aki ilyen teljes és emberi életet él, erőszak által kell elpusztulnia. Bármikor jön a halál, nem talált volna készületlenül, most sem érne váratlanul.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 208. old.

Halál , Emberek , életkor , Élet

„Amerika négere nemrégiben az „integráció”-hadjárat újabb gyengítő, bódító, mákonyos hatását tapasztalhatta. Ez a „washingtoni komédia” volt, már ahogyan én nevezem.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 392. old.

„A fehér ember értelme, amely ma már a világűrt fürkészi, meg kellett volna súgja a rabszolgatartónak, hogy a felvilágosult rabszolga többé nem fél urától. A történelem is tanúsítja, hogy a művelt rabszolga először kéri, aztán követeli, hogy egyenlő lehessen volt urával.”

Malcolm X

Forrás: Uo. 387. old.

Történelem , Emberek

„Másnap kocsiban ültem, és egy piros lámpa megállásra kényszerített. Egy kocsi állt mellém. Fehér nő vezette, és mellette, vagyis hozzám közelebb, egy fehér ember ült. „Malcolm X!”, kiáltott át hozzám. Mikor odafordultam, mosolyogva nyújtotta felém a kezét. „Hajlandó kezet rázni egy fehér emberrel?””

Malcolm X

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.

Emberek

„Másnap kocsiban ültem, és egy piros lámpa megállásra kényszerített. Egy kocsi állt mellém. Fehér nő vezette, és mellette, vagyis hozzám közelebb, egy fehér ember ült. „Malcolm X!”, kiáltott át hozzám. Mikor odafordultam, mosolyogva nyújtotta felém a kezét. „Hajlandó kezet rázni egy fehér emberrel?””

Malcolm X

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.

Emberek

Malcolm X: Idézetek angolul

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

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Message to the Grass Roots (1963)

“You put the government on the spot when you even mention Vietnam. They feel embarrassed — you notice that?… It's just a trap that they let themselves get into. … But they're trapped, they can't get out. You notice I said 'they.' They are trapped, They can't get out. If they pour more men in, they'll get deeper. If they pull the men out, it's a defeat. And they should have known that in the first place. France had about 200,000 Frenchmen over there, and the most highly mechanized modern army sitting on this earth. And those little rice farmers ate them up, and their tanks, and everything else. Yes, they did, and France was deeply entrenched, had been there a hundred or more years. Now, if she couldn't stay there and was entrenched, why, you are out of your mind if you think Sam can get in over there. But we're not supposed to say that. If we say that, we're anti-American, or we're seditious, or we're subversive…. They put Diem over there. Diem took all their money, all their war equipment and everything else, and got them trapped. Then they killed him. Yes, they killed him, murdered him in cold blood, him and his brother, Madame Nhu's husband, because they were embarrassed. They found out that they had made him strong and he was turning against them…. You know, when the puppet starts talking back to the puppeteer, the puppeteer is in bad shape….”

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January 1965, p. 217
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)

“The pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Hajj, is a religious obligation that every orthodox Muslim fulfills, if able, at least once in his or her lifetime.
The Holy Quran says it, "Pilgrimage to the House [of God built by the prophet Abraham] is a duty men owe to God; those who are able, make the journey." (3:97)

Allah said: "And proclaim the pilgrimage among men; they will come to you on foot and upon each lean camel, they will come from every deep ravine" (22:27).

Every one of the thousands at the airport, about to leave for Jeddah, was dressed this way. You could be a king or a peasant and no one would know. Some powerful personages, who were discreetly pointed out to me, had on the same thing I had on. Once thus dressed, we all had begun intermittently calling out "Labbayka! (Allahumma) Labbayka!" (Here I come, O Lord!) Packed in the plane were white, black, brown, red, and yellow people, blue eyes and blond hair, and my kinky red hair -- all together, brothers! All honoring the same God, all in turn giving equal honor to each other….

That is when I first began to reappraise the "white man." It was when I first began to perceive that "white man," as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. In America,"white man" meant specific attitudes and actions toward the black man, and toward all other non-white men. But in the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men.”

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Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)

“The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.”

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Quoted by Alex Haley, after a college campus speech, in the epilogue to The Autobiography.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

“If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.”

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TV Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIX4QMIiOw [date needed], also quoted in Ice Cube: Attitude (2002) by Joel McIver, p. 177

“The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?" In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

“Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities -- he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites. But as racism leads America up the suicide path I do believe, from the experiences that I have had with them, that the whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth -- the only way left to America to ward off the disaster that racism inevitably must lead to....
I believe that God now is giving the world's so-called 'Christian' white society its last opportunity to repent and atone for the crimes of exploiting and enslaving the world's non-white peoples. It is exactly as when God gave Pharaoh a chance to repent. But Pharaoh persisted in his refusal to give justice to those who he oppressed. And, we know, God finally destroyed Pharaoh.

I will never forget the dinner at the Azzam home with Dr. Azzam. The more we talked, the more his vast reservoir of knowledge and its variety seemed unlimited. He spoke of the racial lineage of the descendants of Muhammad (PBUH) the Prophet, and he showed how they were both black and white. He also pointed out how color, and the problems of color which exist in the Muslim world, exist only where, and to the extent that, that area of the Muslim world has been influenced by the West. He said that if on encountered any differences based on attitude toward color, this directly reflected the degree of Western influence.”

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Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)

“You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

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Speech in New York City (7 January 1965)
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Változat: You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.”

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http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/2013/07/harvard-law-school-forum-december-16.html
Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=108sAQAAIAAJ&q=%22I+believe+in+the+brotherhood+of+all+men+but+I+don't+believe+in+wasting+brotherhood+on+anyone+who+doesn't+want+to+practice+it+with+me+Brotherhood+is+a+two-way+street%22&pg=PA133#v=onepage at the Harvard Law School Forum (16 December 1964)

“Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors....
You may be shocked by these words coming from me. But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. This was not too difficult for me. Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept in the same bed (or on the same rug) -- while praying to the same God -- with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the "white" Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana.

We were truly all the same (brothers) -- because their belief in one God had removed the "white" from their minds, the 'white' from their behavior, and the 'white' from their attitude.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man -- and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.

They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most.... I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming to gether as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God.... All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.”

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Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)

“I am surprised that the trouble has been contained to the degree it has. Until two years ago, New York City used wiser methods than any other city to deal with racial problems. Now it is a case of out­right scare tactics. This won’t work, because the Negro is not afraid. If the tac­tics are not changed, this could escalate into something very, very serious.”

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"Malcolm X Lays Harlem Riot To ‘Scare Tactics’ of Police" https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/21/malcolm-x-lays-harlem-riot-to-scare-tactics-of-police.html, The New York Times, July 21, 1964

“It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can't have capitalism without racism.”

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May 29, 1964
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)

“Zionist Israel's occupation of Arab Palestine has forced the Arab world to waste billions of precious dollars on armaments, making it impossible for these newly independent Arab nations to concentrate on strengthening the economies of their countries and elevate the living standard of their people.”

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Malcolm X on Zionism (1964)

“Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he’s lost the battle. He had to sign a truce. America’s not supposed to sign a truce. She’s supposed to be bad. But she’s not bad any more. She’s bad as long as she can use her hydrogen bomb, but she can’t use hers for fear Russia might use hers. Russia can’t use hers, for fear that Sam might use his. So, both of them are weapon-less. They can’t use the weapon because each’s weapon nullifies the other’s. So the only place where action can take place is on the ground. And the white man can’t win another war fighting on the ground. Those days are over. The black man knows it, the brown man knows it, the red man knows it, and the yellow man knows it. So they engage him in guerrilla warfare. That’s not his style. You’ve got to have heart to be a guerrilla warrior, and he hasn’t got any heart.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

“Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man.”

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Forrás: The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

“So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle problems into the United Nations, and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans…
Uncle Sam... and still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world. Not only is he a crook, he’s a hypocrite. Here he is standing up in front of other people, Uncle Sam, with the blood of your and my mothers and fathers on his hands, with the blood dripping down his jaws like a bloody-jawed wolf, and still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. You can’t even get civil rights legislation. And this man has got the nerve to stand up and talk about South Africa, or talk about Nazi Germany, or talk about Deutschland.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely….”

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March 1965, p. 199
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)

“I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism — a human being is exercising extremism — in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.”

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Oxford Union Debate (3 December 1964)

“Three hundred and ten years we worked in this country without a dime in return—I mean without a dime in return. You let the white man walk around here talking about how rich this country is, but you never stop to think how it got rich so quick. It got rich because you made it rich. […] Not only did we give of our free labor, we gave of our blood. Every time he had a call to arms, we were the first ones in uniform. We died on every battlefield the white man had. We have made a greater sacrifice than anybody who’s standing up in America today. We have made a greater contribution and have collected less. Civil rights, for those of us whose philosophy is black nationalism, means: "Give it to us now. Don’t wait for next year. Give it to us yesterday, and that’s not fast enough."”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

“They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”

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Malcolm X

Oxford Union Debate (3 December 1964)

“It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. They ceased to be angry. They ceased to be hot. They ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit — I saw it on television — with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don’t like what I'm saying, but I’m going to tell you anyway. 'Cause I can prove what I'm saying. If you think I'm telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if they'll deny it over a microphone.”

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Malcolm X

Message to the Grass Roots (10 November 1963)

“Adam Clayton Powell is a Christian minister, he’s the head of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, but at the same time, he’s more famous for his political struggling. And Dr. King is a Christian Minister, in Atlanta, Georgia, but he’s become more famous for being involved in the civil rights struggle. There’s another in New York, Reverend Galamison, I don’t know if you’ve heard of him out here. He’s a Christian Minister from Brooklyn, but has become famous for his fight against a segregated school system in Brooklyn. Reverend Clee, right here, is a Christian Minister, here in Detroit. He’s the head of the Freedom Now Party. All of these are Christian Ministers, but they don’t come to us as Christian Ministers. They come to us as fighters in some other category. I’m a Muslim minister the same as they are Christian Ministers. And I don’t believe in fighting today in any one front, but on all fronts. In fact, I’m a black Nationalist Freedom Fighter.”

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Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

“Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.”

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May 1963 interview with Playboy, according to 2007 Dictionary of Antisemitism https://books.google.ca/books?id=d5927rY-UgoC&pg=PA289

“When this country here was first being founded there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation, so some of them stood up and said “Liberty or death.” Though I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan, the white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot, and George Washington -- wasn’t nothing nonviolent about old Pat or George Washington. “Liberty or death” was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English. They didn’t care about the odds. Why they faced the wrath of the entire British Empire. And in those days they used to say that the British Empire was so vast and so powerful when the sun would never set on them. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little, scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire “Liberty or death.” And here you have 22 million Afro-American black people today catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I’m here to tell you, in case you don’t know it, that you got a new generation of black people in this country who don’t care anything whatsoever about odds. They don’t want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds. No. This is a new generation. If they’re gonna draft these young black men and send them over to Korea or South Vietnam to face 800 million Chinese — if you’re not afraid of those odds, you shouldn’t be afraid of these odds.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

“When you take your case to Washington, D. C., you’re taking it to the criminal who’s responsible; it’s like running from the wolf to the fox. They’re all in cahoots together. They all work political chicanery and make you look like a chump before the eyes of the world. Here you are walking around in America, getting ready to be drafted and sent abroad, like a tin soldier, and when you get over there, people ask you what are you fighting for, and you have to stick your tongue in your cheek. No, take Uncle Sam to court, take him before the world.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964)

“America has a very serious problem. Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us. We're her problem. The only reason she has a problem is she doesn't want us here.”

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Statement in Detroit, Michigan (10 November 1963).
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“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”

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Speech, New York City (12 December 1964).
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“Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don’t hang you because you’re a Baptist; they hang you ‘cause you’re black. They don’t attack me because I’m a Muslim; they attack me ‘cause I’m black. They attack all of us for the same reason -- all of us catch hell from the same enemy. We’re all in the same bag, in the same boat. We suffer political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation all of them from the same enemy.”

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The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)

“You trust them (white Americans), and I don't. You studied what he wanted you to learn about him in schools. I studied him in the streets and in prison, where you see the truth.”

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)

“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”

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Forrás: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 158