You can’t have capitalism without racism.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Some things are better done than said.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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