Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
MALCOLM XIf you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.
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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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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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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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People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.
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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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All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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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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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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