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Respect me, or put me to death.

Malcolm X

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.
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Angel Come Devil Man Respect Stand Wrong
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Creation Each Other Inspirational Light Love Need Patience Understand Unity
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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Blind Face Matter Patriotism Politics Reality Wrong
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Connection Government People Revolution
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Gun Peace Struggle Violence War
Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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Destroy Revolution System
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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Culture Express Fulfillment History Individual Man People Pride Race Talent
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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Angry Change Condition Cry People Sad
Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Contain Hunt Hunter Jungle Man Remember Revenge
To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Crime Disgrace
We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
MALCOLM X

Boat Catch Hell Man
You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Democracy Politics
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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Business Competition Engagement Especially Success
How can anyone be against love?
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Against Love One Liner
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Book Curiosity Life Reading Satisfaction Spend
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Anger Hatred Inspirational Kindness Meet Power

Respect me, or put me to death.

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