Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
MALCOLM XIf 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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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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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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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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