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. Malcolm X
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  2. Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing. - Osman Bakar
  3. To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty. - Osman Bakar
  4. Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things. - Osman Bakar
  5. Faith in Qur'anic revelation unveils all the possibilities that lie before the human intellect. - Osman Bakar
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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