"You don't have a peaceful revolution. You..." - Quote by Malcolm X
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”
“Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.”
“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
More on Revolution
“The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?”
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”
More on Nonviolence
“The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.”
“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
“No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.”