Who quoted this????

[nuova1]

Who said.....'If we/you are not part of the solution then we/you are part of the problem'......I thought it was Malcolm X but can find no reference to him actually saying this.......

[Rabelais]

Not Malcom X but Eldridge Cleaver "What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." Eldridge Cleaver, Speech in San Francisco, 1968 Though I think "if you're not part of the solution you're part of the precipitate" would have at least been more technically correct

[incitatus]

if you are not part of the solution you are a sol/suspension/colloid/residue/precipitate/ternary phase system (delete as appropriate) would be more like it

[omblod]

I've always found the use of this phrase (particularly as used by MTV) to be supremely smug and self-righteous. I've decided, therefore, that the next person to say it to me is getting a smack in the mouth. Incidentally, Malcolm X DID once say that he would do this to Martin Luther King if he ever met him to see how non-violent he'd remain. As it turns out, when he did meet him he posed for a photo opportunity.