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Quotes from Speech in Detroit, Michigan — Malcolm X

1925–1965 United States

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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

It'll be the ballot or it'll be the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death. And if you're not ready to pay that price don't use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

Speech in Detroit, Michigan (1964)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Malcolm X (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.