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.
MALCOLM XSometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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’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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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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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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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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How can anyone be against love?
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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