"As I say, if we bring up..." - Quote by Malcolm X
As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.
More by Malcolm X
“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.”
“This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.”
“Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.”
More on Religion
“Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.”
“My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.”
“Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.”
More on Unity
“The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.”
“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”
“Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.”