"If you stick a knife nine inches..." - Quote by Malcolm X
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress.
More by Malcolm X
“Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.”
“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.”
“The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.”
More on Progress
“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”
“Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.”
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
More on Injustice
“What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.”
“Humanity is outraged in me and with me.”
“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”