How can anyone be against love?
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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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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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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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.
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The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.
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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 persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.
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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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We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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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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If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
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I’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.
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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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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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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 all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
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