A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM XTruth is on the side of the oppressed.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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If not now then when, if not me then who?
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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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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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 an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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