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.
MALCOLM XIn fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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 thing power respects, is power.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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