If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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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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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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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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 don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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Stumbling is not falling.
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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.
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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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