My sincerity is my credentials.
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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
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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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Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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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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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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The only thing power respects, is power.
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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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