Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Hence 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.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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The price of freedom is death.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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