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.
MALCOLM XRespect me, or put me to death.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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The price of freedom is death.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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