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.
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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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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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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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you’ll do anything to get it. Then you’ll get it. It’s the only way you’ll get it.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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