Respect me, or put me to death.
MALCOLM XHistory is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the 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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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I’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.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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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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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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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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