We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.
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More Malcolm X Quotes
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.
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A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
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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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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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How can anyone be against love?
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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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.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.
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