lmX stamp to Black Heritage Commemorative series, saluting outstanding contributions AfricanAmericans have made to our nation. Some Quotes by Malcolm XOn Self Acceptance“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptance toourselves”On Childhood“We were so hungry we were dizzy and we had nowhere to turn. Finally the authorities came inand we children were scattered about in different places as public wards. I happened tobecome the ward of a white couple who ran a correctional school for white boys. This familyliked me in the way they liked their house pets” 1963On Faith“A new world order is in the making and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may takeour rightful place in it” On Overcoming“At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night andday with the rats and the cockroaches and drowns himself with alcohol and anesthetizeshimself with dope, to try to forget where and what he is. That Negro had given up all hope. He’s the hardest one for us to reach, because he’s the deepest in the mud. But when you gethim, you’ve got the best kind of Muslim. I look upon myself as a prime example of thiscategory-as graphic an example as you could find of the salvation of the black man.” 1963On Hatred“What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off hisfingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people {why} they hate him?”On Betty“She’s the only person I’d trust with my life”On Martin Luther King Jr.“He got the peace prize and we got the problem” 1964On Christianity“I find it difficult {to believe} that....Christians accuse {Black Muslims} of teaching racialsupremacy or..hatred, because their own history and ....teachings are filled with it” 1960On Integration“...when you...
