It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
MALCOLM XPeople don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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