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.
MALCOLM XIf you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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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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Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
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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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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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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
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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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