The only thing power respects, is power.
MALCOLM XI don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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