How can anyone be against love?
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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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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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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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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