Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
MALCOLM XWe need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Some things are better done than said.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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