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.
MALCOLM X
I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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 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.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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