I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
MALCOLM XTo have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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 are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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