Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
MALCOLM XThe greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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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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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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