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disciplesofmalcolm:

Tumblr has helped many of us become more conscious of struggle. The first step is to change yourself. Next, you need to get organized. It is meaningless to blog quotes and pictures of our heroes if we are not doing anything to follow in their footsteps. Don’t reblog…

You will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth. Look at your behavior. Look at the behavior of your compatriots and watch if what I’m saying is not true.

“I hate to read. I hate to study. I hate to learn. Oh, but I love to party. I love to smoke. I like to drink. I love to screw.” And all the loves you will find will be loves that what? That don’t advance you one bit, and yet you can’t get over them. You’re addicted to them.

But things that lead to growth, to growth and wisdom, knowledge, you see, self-understanding and self-discovery, healthy relations, self-control; all those things are hateful.

But this is the only way a minority can rule over a majority of people, is by turning their minds backwards. So that they love the things that destroy them and hate the things that move them forward. In order for these people to rule over us, we must hate learning. This has to be built into us.

If we were into learning, if we were into research, and into thinking, and into real philosophical ideas and abstraction, we would defeat those people. They know it. So consequently, what they must do is rob you of all of these things so that they may stay in their place.

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Dr. Amos Wilson on how we are made to love ignorance and hate knowledge.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHDBIDM4wW0

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

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redplebeian:

Secret Malcolm X recording with FBI

Such a great clip. Watch, not because I would encourage anyone to try this if the FBI knocked on your door. You can exercise your right to remain silent, and have your lawyer contact them, and you should to avoid future incrimination. Your words can be twisted and you can be charged with a felony for lying if they decide. Watch for what the role of the FBI has been in the history of this country, and how much Malcolm X’s words resonate in today’s War of Terror against Muslims. This is a historic recording, for exposing the cowardice of their side, and the brilliance of the best of ours in Malcolm.

The FBI and all cops are scum. Malcolm X was an eloquent bad ass

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You tell me what kind of country this is. Why should we do the dirtiest jobs for the lowest pay? Why should we do the hardest work for the lowest pay? Why should we pay the most money for the worst kind of food and the most money for the worst kind of place to live in? I’m telling you we do it because we live in one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this earth. It’s the system that is rotten… It’s a system of exploitation, a political and economic system of exploitation, of outright humiliation, degradation, discrimination-all of the negative things that you can run into … under this system that disguises itself as a democracy …And you run around here getting ready to get drafted and go someplace and defend it. Someone needs to crack you up ‘side your head.

—Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary (Pages 47-48)

(Source: disciplesofmalcolm, via disciplesofmalcolm)

This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

— Stokely Carmichael (via pushertee)