You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
MALCOLM XNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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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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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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