I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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More Malcolm X Quotes
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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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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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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