We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
MALCOLM XI don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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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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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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