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?
MALCOLM XYou 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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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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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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