If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
MALCOLM XTruth is on the side of the oppressed.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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The 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.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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