"The goal - is the dignity of..." - Quote by Malcolm X
The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.
More 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.”
“We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.”
“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”
More on Dignity
“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
“A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.”
“I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.”
More on Respect
“We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.”
“Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
“Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.”