Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
MALCOLM XA 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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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Some things are better done than said.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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