How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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The price of freedom is death.
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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