Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
MALCOLM XHence 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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