Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
MALCOLM XIgnorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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