I 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.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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