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.
MALCOLM XRevolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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How can anyone be against love?
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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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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