"... the young people are the ones..." - Quote by Malcolm X
... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.
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“Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle.”
“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.”
“You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolutionA time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused itAnd now there has to be a change and a better world has to be builtAnd the only way is going to be built is with extreme methodsAnd I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you areAs long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth”
More on Youth
“I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!”
“It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.”
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
More on Activism
“When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”
“If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing.”
“It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.”