To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM XNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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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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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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Respect me, or put me to 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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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