Quote #72

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. - From a letter Malcolm X wrote to his wife and, concurrently, Muslim Mosque, Inc., toward the end of his pilgrimage to Mecca; cited in The Autobiography.

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  1. I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims …
  2. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - From Malcolm X …
  3. 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 a…
  4. They called me the 'angriest Negro in America'. I wouldn't deny that charge.
  5. I've had enough of somebody else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. …
  6. How can anyone be against love?
  7. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.
  8. We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

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