If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM XIt is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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