"To say it is not practical, one..." - Quote by Malcolm X
To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
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“I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything”
“[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.”
“Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!”
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“These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.”
“Study the science of art and the art of science.”
“It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”
More on Practicality
“Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!”
“I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.”
“There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.”