You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
MALCOLM XI have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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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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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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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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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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The price of freedom is death.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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