Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.
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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.
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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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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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Respect me, or put me to death.
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If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
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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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The price of freedom is death.
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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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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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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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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
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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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