If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
MALCOLM XI’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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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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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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