Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
MALCOLM XPeople don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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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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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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The price of freedom is death.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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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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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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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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