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.
MALCOLM XRevolutions are never peaceful.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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How can anyone be against love?
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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