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.
MALCOLM XAs long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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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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We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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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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I’m sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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