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.
MALCOLM XOf all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Stumbling is not falling.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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The 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.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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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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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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