If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
MALCOLM XSo early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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The price of freedom is death.
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I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
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Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.
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Education is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect.
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One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
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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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It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.
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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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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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As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.
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All over this world people are standing up for freedom.
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Who taught you to hate yourself?
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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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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?
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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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Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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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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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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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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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.
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