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 XAs long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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