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.
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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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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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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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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The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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