Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
MALCOLM XLearn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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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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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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