Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.. Malcolm X
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More Quotes By Malcolm X
  1. People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
  2. So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
  3. You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
  4. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
  5. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
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