You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
MALCOLM XAnd just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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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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The price of freedom is 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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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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Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.
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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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