"I’m not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American… No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million Black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the 22 million Black people who are the victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy…I am speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
- Malcolm X | the Ballot or the Bullet (Cleveland, April 3, 1964)
(Source: eedyeh, via thechanelmuse)
"I think you’ll find, sir, that there will come a time
when black people wake up and become intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
as other humans are intellectually independent enough to think for themselves
Then the black man will think like a black man and he will feel for other black people
and this new thinking and feeling will cause black people to stick together
And then at that point you’ll have a situation
where when you attack one black man, you are attacking all black men
and this type of black thinking will cause all black people to stick together
And this type of thinking also will bring an end
to the brutality inflicted upon black people by (black people)
And it is the only thing that will bring an end to it
No federal court, state court or city court will bring an end to it
It’s something that the black man has to bring an end to"
"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there."
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