If not now then when, if not me then who?
MALCOLM XThe media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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