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Famous Quotations - Malcolm X

• By Any Means Necessary...
  • We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
  • Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
• Education, Students, the Youth...
• Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.
• Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
•  Freedom, Death, and the Oppressed...
  • Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
  • You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
  • If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
  • I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
  • I am not a racist.... In the past I permitted myself to be used...to make sweeping indictments of all white people, the entire white race and these generalizations have caused injuries to some whites who perhaps did not deserve to be hurt. Because of the spiritual enlightenment which I was blessed to receive as a result of my recent pilgrimage to the Holy city of Mecca, I no longer subscribe to sweeping indictments of any one race. I am now striving to live the life of a true...Muslim. I must repeat that I am not a racist nor do I subscribe to the tenants of racism. I can state in all sincerity that I wish nothing but freedom, justice and equality, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Unity, Brotherhood, Objectives...

• "Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy. We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society."

• Politics and 'isms...
  • It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.
•  Hypocrisy, Delusion, Honesty...
  • They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.
  • You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
• Women...
  • If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.
• Humans, Human Rights, Humanity...
  • I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
  • I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.
• Who Am I?
  • I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.
• Islam...
  • I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe--the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah....
  • America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, and even eaten with people who in America would have been considered white, but the white attitude was removed from their minds by the religion of Islam. I have never before seen sincere and true brotherhood practiced by all together, irrespective of their color.
  • 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.
  • History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Famous Quotations of Ali :-

• The sum total of excellence is knowledge.  
• To respect the learned is to respect God. 
• Fear God and you will have no cause to fear anyone.  
• Lead such a life that when you die people will mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.  
• Opportunity is swift of flight, but slow to return.  
• He who knows himself knows God.  
• The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body. 
• To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.  
• Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.  
• A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.  
• Patience is the fruit of faith. 
• Virtue never dies.  
• No shelter is safer than piety.  
• A man's behaviour is the index of his mind. 
• Courtesy costs nothing but buys everything.  
• Forgiveness is the crown of greatness.  
• Fear none but your sins.  
• Honour your parents and your sons will honour you.
• The tongue pierces deeper than [a] spear. 
• To seek council is to go to the fountain of guidance.  
• Association with a fool is tyranny to the soul.  
• A tyrant's success is his moral defeat.  
• It is better to die than to beg.  
• When a man begs, he loses his faith.
• Silence is the best reply to a fool.  
• He that has no courage has no religion. 
• The right of freedom of speech consists in speaking the truth.  
• To assist the wrong is to oppress the right.  
• Sinning is a disease, repentance is its medicine, and abstinence from it is a sure cure.  
• As a man's wisdom increases so his desire to speak decreases. 
• He who seeks to do justice with men, let him desire for them what he desires for himself.  
• Contentment is an asset which is never exhausted. 
• Finding fault with others is one's greatest fault.  
• He who does not know his own worth, is doomed to destruction.  
• Knowledge is the ornament of the rich and the riches of the poor.  
• Knowledge is the sum total of excellence; he who teaches you a letter binds you with a fetter of gratitude.  
• Truth [may be] bitter, but it's a result is sweet; falsehood appears to be sweet but it is poisonous in its effect.  
• Knowledge and practice are twins, and both go together for there is no knowledge without practice, and no practice without knowledge.  
• When God wants to humiliate a person, He deprives him of knowledge. 
• He who listens to a backbiter loses a friend.  
• There is nothing more hateful than pride.  
• Do not run after the world, let the world to run after you.  
• The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.  
• What you do not like for yourself, do not like it for others either. 
• To waste time is one's greatest loss.  
• No relationship is stronger than the relationship that exists between man and God.  
• Do not speak in a state of ignorance. 
• It is better to restrain your desires than to stretch your hand before others. 
• A little that is burned because of honest labour is better than a larger amount gained through dishonest means.  
   
  

Famous Quotations from Rumi:-

• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.  
• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.  
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. 
• Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
• Beware! Don’t allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, ‘Later I will repent and ask God’s forgiveness.
• Don’t allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. 
• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
• Let’s ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.
• No prayer is complete without presence.
• O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
• People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
• Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.
• Revile those who flatter you.
• Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
• The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
• The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
• The middle path is the way to wisdom.
• You think the shadow is the substance.
• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.  
• Let the beauty we love be what we do.  
• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.  
• ...died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?  
• In every religion there is Love, yet Love has no religion. Love is like an ocean, without borders and shores where so many drown, yet regretful cries are not to be heard.  
• The king is the belvedere, expecting to see that which had been shown mysteriously. Has saw a person excellent and worshipful, a sun amidst a shadow. 
   
   

Famous Quotations - Allama Iqbal

• "... I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature. This constant contact with the spirit of Islam, as it unfolds itself in time, has, I think, given me a kind of insight into the significance as a world fact."
• "Greed has torn apart humankind. You (Muslims), become role models of love and brotherhood. Get beyond the narrow boundaries of nationalities (like Indian, Khurasani, Afghani, and Turkish) and jump into the limitless ocean (of Islam)."
• "It is the same old disease, the same psychological problem of the heart. The cure is also the same, ‘Aab-e-Nishat’ i.e., the Qur’an."
• "There is one common gain and one common loss for all Muslims. One Prophet (PBUH) for all and one Iman for all. One Ka’aba, one Allah and one Qur’an for all. How great it would be if Muslims also were one!"  

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