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.
MALCOLM XEducation is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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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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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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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.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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