Malcolm X citáty

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„Vzdělávání je naším pasem do budoucnosti, zítřek patří lidem, kteří se na něj dnes připravují.“

„Chceme dosáhnout svobody za každou cenu. Chceme dosáhnout spravedlnosti za každou cenu. Chceme dosáhnout rovnosti za každou cenu.“

„Pro mě je zrada horší než smrt. Dokážu si totiž představit smrt, ale nedokážu si představit zradu.“

„Věřím v lidské bytosti a že všechny lidské bytosti by měly být jako takové respektovány bez ohledu na jejich barvu.“

„Nemůžete nenávidět kořeny stromu a milovat strom.“

„Cena za svobodu je smrt.“

„Nikdo vám nemůže dát svobodu, rovnost nebo cokoliv. Pokud jsi člověk, vezmeš si ji.“

„Jedna z prvních věcí, kterou by se podle mne mladí lidé, zejména ti dnešní, měli naučit, je dívat se, poslouchat a přemýšlet sami za sebe. Jen tak budete schopni sami dospět k nějakému rozumnému rozhodnutí. Jestliže si zvyknete jednat podle toho, co vám o někom říkají, nebo co si o někom myslí ostatní, místo abyste si na to přišli sami a sami se o tom na vlastní oči přesvědčili, budete kráčet na západ v pevné víře, že jdete na východ, a klidně půjdete na východ v pevné víře, že se ubíráte na západ. To nejdůležitější, co se dnes můžeme naučit, je myslet sami za sebe.“

„Kdo vás naučil nenávidět sebe sama?“

„Nemůžeš být tak zaslepený vlastenectvím, abys přestal čelit realitě. Špatné je špatné, bez ohledu na to, kdo to dělá nebo říká.“

„Vyzbrojeni znalostí naší minulosti můžeme s důvěrou pronajmout smer pro naši budoucnost.“

„Nejsem rasista. Jsem proti každé formě rasismu a segregaci, proti jakékoli formě diskriminace.“

„Bůh nám žehnal. Zničil dvacet dva našich nepřátel.“

„Černý rasista byl počat bílým rasistou.“

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”

“I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”

“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

“Don't be in such a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”

“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”

“To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace”

“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.”

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”

“Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time any one violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court.”

“I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.”

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”

“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”

“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”

“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”

“In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.”

“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”

“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”

“You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it.”

“As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.”

“Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water, just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better."
-said by Elijah Muhammad to Malcolm X”

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”

“Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.”

“There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.”

“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”

“True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.”

“It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

“One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.”