Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
MALCOLM XThe only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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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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Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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Revolutions are never peaceful.
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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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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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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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History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
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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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