Respect me, or put me to death.
MALCOLM XWe’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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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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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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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 and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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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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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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Some things are better done than said.
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