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.
MALCOLM XEducation is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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.
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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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