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.
MALCOLM XA 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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