The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
MALCOLM XIf you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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