"One of the main things that I..." - Quote by Malcolm X
One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.
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“If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.”
“What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.”
“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”
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“If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
“The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence.”
“I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.”
More on Humanity
“There's a genius in all of us.”
“I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.”
“Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.”