A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM XAnd just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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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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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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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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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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