Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
MALCOLM XThe only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Some things are better done than said.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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 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.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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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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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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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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