Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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 only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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How can anyone be against love?
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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