I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
MALCOLM XIt’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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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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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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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.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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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 someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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