Revolutions are never peaceful.
MALCOLM XOnly those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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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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Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
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How can anyone be against love?
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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 price of freedom is death.
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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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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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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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My sincerity is my credentials.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me.
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Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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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 think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
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A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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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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