Some things are better done than said.
MALCOLM XEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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I don’t advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I’ll step on his.
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There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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