My sincerity is my credentials.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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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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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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