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.
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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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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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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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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 future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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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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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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