I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
MALCOLM XYou and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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