Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
MALCOLM XYou can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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