Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
MALCOLM XMankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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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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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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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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