The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
MALCOLM XOnly a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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Some things are better done than said.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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