"I think as an intelligent person you..." - Quote by Malcolm X
I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.
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“If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
“In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks.”
More on Oppression
“India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.”
“The only people who hate escapism are jailers.”
“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”
More on Urgency
“We are not going to keep the window open forever.”
“But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.”
“No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!”