Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
MALCOLM XI don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
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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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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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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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