Who taught you to hate yourself?
MALCOLM XI’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.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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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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Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
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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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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
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You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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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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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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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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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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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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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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