A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
MALCOLM XIt’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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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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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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My sincerity is my credentials.
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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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I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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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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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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