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?
MALCOLM XThe media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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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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