“I am not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.”
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Speech at the Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, 1964
Minister, activist, and Black nationalist whose unapologetic voice for Black self-determination transformed the civil rights movement.
Explore all Malcolm X quotes →This quote speaks to the pillar of Courage — the willingness to act, resist, and stand for something bigger than yourself. From the civil rights movement to today, Black voices have shown that courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to move forward anyway.
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